Re: [rfc][patch] ide: fix unneeded LBA48 taskfile registers access

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Wed Feb 09 2005 - 21:06:59 EST


Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:52:25 +0900, Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Okay, another quick question.

To fix the io_32bit race problem in ide_taskfile_ioctl() (and later
ide_cmd_ioctl() too), it seems simplest to mark the taskfile with
something like ATA_TFLAG_IO_16BIT flag and use the flag in task_in_intr().

However, ATA_TFLAG_* are used by libata, and I think that, although
sharing hardware constants is good if the hardware is similar, sharing
driver-specific flags isn't such a good idea. So, what do you think?

1. Add ATA_TFLAG_IO_16BIT to ata.h
2. Make ide's own set of task flags, maybe IDE_TFLAG_* (including
IDE_TFLAG_LBA48)


Please add it to <ata.h> (unless Jeff complains loudly),
I have a patch converting ide_task_t to use struct ata_taskfile
(except ->protocol for now).

ACK


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