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Message-Id: <200911251832.37101.bzolnier@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:32:37 +0100
From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/86] pata_efar: fix register naming used in efar_set_piomode()
On Wednesday 25 November 2009 06:25:41 pm Alan Cox wrote:
> > Rename 'idetm_port' and 'idetm_data' variables to 'master_port'
> > and 'master_data' respectively to match register naming used in
> > efar_set_dma_mode() and in ata_piix.c.
>
> Probably better to do the reverse to match the docs ?
It just matches ata_piix.c code currently.
> > - u16 idetm_data;
> > + u8 master_port = ap->port_no ? 0x42 : 0x40;
> > + u16 master_data;
>
> Please don't drop undocumented type changes in. And btw it uses unsigned
Oh, I forgot to document it in this patch. Others should have it documented.
[ Will fix later. ]
> int here as all over the kernel because it produced better code in many
> cases
Better code is smaller code in this situation and this is clearly minor
issue anyway (since the code is not performance critical having cleaner
code wins over).
> These patches seem to spend a lot of time renaming everything in drivers
It just prepares the code for unification of code programming PIO and MWDMA
methods, see patch #18.
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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