[PATCH] ata: pata-imx: simplify assignment of device name

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Mon Jan 9 00:53:36 PST 2017


On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 10:50:46AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 10:45:49AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> >  	dev->detect = pata_imx_detect;
> 
> BTW, another thing I noticed while reading through this driver is:
> 
> pata_imx_detect is a wrapper around ata_port_detect. Later in
> imx_pata_probe the function ide_port_register is called which also calls
> ata_port_detect.
> 
> I don't have a machine handy where I could test, but I guess
> pata_imx_detect could be dropped. (Or alternatively ide_port_register
> could be reworked and all callers fixed to setup a detect call.)


ide_port_register() has:

	ret = ata_port_register(&ide->port);
	if (!ret)
		ata_port_detect(&ide->port);

The call to ata_port_detect() goes back to:

commit 9c8f73ba86884026f4bbfc6f593d73741cfebcdc
Author: Michel Stam <m.stam at fugro.nl>
Date:   Mon Apr 7 12:01:21 2014 +0200

The hunk adding ata_port_detect() is wrong as it shortcircuits the
optional detection mechanism.

Sascha

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