Tejun Heo wrote:
Hello, Mark.
Mark Lord wrote:
Mark Lord wrote:
An alternative to all this, might be to expose the "select_pmp()"
function shown in the sample code, and have libata-pmp.c call that,
instead of having the new new .pmp_{read,write} functions.
..
I wonder if this might be more viable than first thought.
Say the LLD, be it ata_piix or sata_mv or sata_svw, were to provide
an option ata_operations method for "select_pmp_port(pmp)",
which the core could invoke prior to any direct manipulation
of the shadow registers.
I don't really think that's a good solution. That's the quickest
solution for sata_mv but it just works around more fundamental problem
of assuming SFF behavior in core layer which we need to drop anyway.
I really would like to keep the LLD code small, and have good solid
core routines for non-hardware specific functionality. All of this stuff
I'm beginning to do with sata_mv would be trivial if I wanted to bloat
the LLD, but really.. only a tiny bit of it need be custom to sata_mv.
The existing SFF reset/probe/pmp stuff is just about exactly what
sata_mv needs.. and I feel a strong desire to not clone/duplicate
that hard-won functionality.
I strongly agree but am having difficult time agreeing with the proposed
approach.
..
Okay, then. MASSIVE code-duplication, here I come!
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