linux-kernel - [PATCH] libsas: move ATA bits into a separate module

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Message-ID: <4508A0A2.2080605@us.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:21:54 -0700
From:	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...ibm.com>
To:	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	Alexis Bruemmer <alexisb@...ibm.com>,
	Mike Anderson <andmike@...ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] libsas: move ATA bits into a separate module

Hi all,

Per James Bottomley's request, I've moved all the libsas SATA support
code into a separate module, named sas_ata.  To satisfy his further
requirement that libsas not require libata (and vice versa), ata_sas
maintains fixed function pointer tables to various required functions
within libsas and libata.  Unfortunately, this means that libsas and
libata both require sas_ata, but sas_ata is smaller than libata.
Unloads of libata/libsas at inopportune moments are prevented by
increasing the refcounts on both modules whenever libsas detects a SATA
device (and decreasing it when the device goes away, of course).  If the
module is removed from the .config, then all of hooks into libsas/libata
should go away.

This is a rough-cut at separating out the ATA code; please let me know
what I can improve.  At the moment, I can load and talk to SATA disks
with the module enabled, as well as watch nothing happen if the module
is not config'd in.

The patch is a bit large, so here's where it lives:
http://sweaglesw.net/~djwong/docs/sas-ata_2.patch

Thanks for any feedback that you can provide!

--D

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@...ibm.com>
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