Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:24:19 +0900
> Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> For drive side cable detection to work correctly, drives need to be
>> identified backwards such that the slave device releases PDIAG- before
>> the mater drive tries to detect cable type.  ata_bus_probe() was fixed
>> by commit f31f0cc2f0b7527072d94d02da332d9bb8d7d94c but the new EH path
>> wasn't fixed.  This patch makes new EH path do IDENTIFY backwards.
>>
>> ata_dev_configure() for new devices are still performed master first.
>> This is to keep the detection messages in forward order.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> Acked-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> Why do we have two implementations of the same code ?

ata_bus_probe() is scheduled to be killed once all old-EH code is
removed.  That's the old probe path.

-- 
tejun
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