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Message-ID: <47B5B374.2080403@garzik.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:44:52 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
CC: linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>,
Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gdth: convert to PCI hotplug API
James Bottomley wrote:
>> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/gdth.c b/drivers/scsi/gdth.c
>> index c825239..1b53e92 100644
>> --- a/drivers/scsi/gdth.c
>> +++ b/drivers/scsi/gdth.c
>> @@ -595,85 +595,107 @@ static int __init gdth_search_isa(ulong32 bios_adr)
>> #endif /* CONFIG_ISA */
>>
>> #ifdef CONFIG_PCI
>> -static void gdth_search_dev(gdth_pci_str *pcistr, ushort *cnt,
>> - ushort vendor, ushort dev);
>> +static gdth_pci_str gdth_pcistr[MAXHA];
>> +static int gdth_pci_cnt;
>> +static bool gdth_pci_registered;
>
> Could we get rid of these static arrays and MAXHA entirely? It should
> be possible just to bung the parameters in pci_str into gdth_ha_str and
> dump the arrays.
I kept those array for one reason: you need it to preserve the existing
in-driver PCI device sort.
If we can eliminate the sorting, then the array can easily disappear.
I /think/ the sort can be eliminated now because we have pci=reverse,
but I have not verified that guess.
Jeff
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