[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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