Re: [PATCH] IDE: correct partially initialised hw structures

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
12 Nov 2002 14:28:59 +0000


On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 19:04, Peter Denison wrote:
> Actually, if the patch that moves ide_init_default_hwifs() is applied then
> maybe this isn't strictly necessary. The whole area needs cleaning up, but
> I was loathe to start doing major changes. I've done large parts of the
> call tree for the ide driver, and I _still_ don't fully understand what
> should be called when. Just as a sample, there's:
> ide_init_data
> ide_init_default_hwifs
> ide_init_hwif_ports
> init_hwif_data
> ideprobe_init
> probe_hwif_init
> hwif_init
> etc.

Can you leave that bit alone for the moment. I'm currently splitting
ide.c into ide.c and ide-io.c so that all the crap is in one place ready
for extermination

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