[PATCH] ata: pata-imx: simplify assignment of device name
Uwe Kleine-König
u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Wed Jan 11 08:06:56 PST 2017
On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 09:53:36AM +0100, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> 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.
Who fixes this? /me looks at Michel who was added to Cc: :-)
Best regards
Uwe
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