linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] remove CONFIG_IDE_MAX

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Message-Id: <200807292145.21681.bzolnier@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:45:21 +0200
From:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] remove CONFIG_IDE_MAX_HWIFS

On Tuesday 29 July 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 04:32:16PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > On Sunday 27 July 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >...
> > > <--  snip  -->
> > > 
> > > Considering the little benefits of all this fiddling with IDE_MAX_HWIFS 
> > > I decided to fix it through a simplification:
> > > - always #define MAX_HWIFS      CONFIG_IDE_MAX_HWIFS
> > > - always set CONFIG_IDE_MAX_HWIFS in kconfig
> > > - let IDE_MAX_HWIFS default to 10
> > > - allow changing the value of IDE_MAX_HWIFS only if IDE && EMBEDDED
> > 
> > I was actually wondering whether it is worth to keep IDE_MAX_HWIFS
> > now that ide_hwif_t instances are allocated dynamically.
> > 
> > [ The difference between MAX_HWIFS == 10 and MAX_HWIFS == 2 is now
> >   ~100 bytes (x86_32) and between MAX_HWIFS == 10 and MAX_HWIFS == 1
> >   it is ~1kb (IIRC). ]
> > 
> > Since there were also many other improvements in shrinking drivers/ide/
> > code size which should keep embedded users happy and compensate for
> > the above 1kB-worst-case I would prefer to have IDE_MAX_HWIFS removed
> > completely.
> >...
> 
> Patch below.

applied

Thanks Adrian!
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