On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 09:28:24AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 01:34:12PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 02:17:37AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > > Why does the calgary driver need this? Can we just use
> > > > > pci_get_device()
> > > > > instead? Why do you need to walk the device list backwards? Do you
> > > > > get
> > > > > false positives going forward?
> > > >
> > > > It doesn't look to be performance critical so the driver can
> > > > pci_get_device until the end and use the final hit anyway.
> > >
> > > That would make more sense.
> > >
> > > > IDE reverse is more problematic but nobody seems to use it.
> > >
> > > I've seen two posters say they use it. I'm wondering what it is really
> > > solving if they use it, and why if it's really needed, scsi never had to
> > > implement such a hack...
> >
> > It is no longer solving anything, just adds more pain. ;)
> >
> > [ The option comes from 2.2.x (so long before LABEL=/ and /dev/disk/by-id/
> > became popular). Some "off-board" controllers integrated on motherboards
> > used to appear before "on-board" IDE on PCI bus so this option was meant
> > to preserve the legacy ordering. ]
> >
> > Since it is valid only when "Probe IDE PCI devices in the PCI bus order
> > (DEPRECATED)" config option is used it is already on its way out (though
> > marking it as obsoleted would make it more explicit).
> >
> > I think that removing "ide=reverse" in 2.6.26 would be OK...
>
> Great, thanks for your blessing. I'll make up a patch and send it to
> you for approval.
How does the patch below look? I didn't want to remove the whole config
option, as there is more to the logic than just the "reverse order"
stuff there.
If you don't mind, can I take this through the PCI tree so as to allow
the removal of this pci function afterwards?
thanks,
greg k-h
--------
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IDE: remove ide=reverse IDE core
This option is obsolete and can be removed safely.
It allows us to remove the pci_get_device_reverse() function from the
PCI core.
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
drivers/ide/ide-scan-pci.c | 9 ++-------
drivers/ide/ide.c | 12 ------------
include/linux/ide.h | 1 -
3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-scan-pci.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-scan-pci.c
@@ -88,13 +88,8 @@ static int __init ide_scan_pcibus(void)
struct list_head *l, *n;
pre_init = 0;
- if (!ide_scan_direction)
- while ((dev = pci_get_device(PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, dev)))
- ide_scan_pcidev(dev);
- else
- while ((dev = pci_get_device_reverse(PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID,
- dev)))
- ide_scan_pcidev(dev);
+ while ((dev = pci_get_device(PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, dev)))
+ ide_scan_pcidev(dev);
/*
* Hand the drivers over to the PCI layer now we
--- a/drivers/ide/ide.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide.c
@@ -92,10 +92,6 @@ static int system_bus_speed; /* holds wh
DEFINE_MUTEX(ide_cfg_mtx);
__cacheline_aligned_in_smp DEFINE_SPINLOCK(ide_lock);
-#ifdef CONFIG_IDEPCI_PCIBUS_ORDER
-int ide_scan_direction; /* THIS was formerly 2.2.x pci=reverse */
-#endif
-
int noautodma = 0;
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEACPI
@@ -1227,14 +1223,6 @@ static int __init ide_setup(char *s)
goto obsolete_option;
}
-#ifdef CONFIG_IDEPCI_PCIBUS_ORDER
- if (!strcmp(s, "ide=reverse")) {
- ide_scan_direction = 1;
- printk(" : Enabled support for IDE inverse scan order.\n");
- return 1;
- }
-#endif
-
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEACPI
if (!strcmp(s, "ide=noacpi")) {
//printk(" : Disable IDE ACPI support.\n");
--- a/include/linux/ide.h
+++ b/include/linux/ide.h
@@ -988,7 +988,6 @@ extern void do_ide_request(struct reques
void ide_init_disk(struct gendisk *, ide_drive_t *);
#ifdef CONFIG_IDEPCI_PCIBUS_ORDER
-extern int ide_scan_direction;
extern int __ide_pci_register_driver(struct pci_driver *driver, struct module
*owner, const char *mod_name);
#define ide_pci_register_driver(d) __ide_pci_register_driver(d, THIS_MODULE,
KBUILD_MODNAME)
#else
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