Re: [PATCH] libata queue updated

[Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>]

On Monday 30 January 2006 08:04, Tejun Heo wrote:
> I object.  Using array is intentional.  Slave aware controllers (PATA / 
> ata_piix) will use [0..1], most SATA controllers will use only [0], and 
> PM aware ones will use [0..15].  The intention was requiring low level 
> drivers of only what they know and normalize them in the core layer.
> 
> eg. Current std SATA reset routines consider the argument as *class (a 
> single class value) and it's intentional.  As long as a lldd is aware of 
> only one device per port, it's allowed/recommeded to consider the passed 
> classes argument as a pointer to single class value.  The rest is upto 
> the core libata layer.
 
But what you pass along is basically an unbounded array, which is
a bug waiting to happen.

So please let the core layer pass a bounded array here or provide
a function from core layer to set that and check the index.


Thanks & Regards

Ingo Oeser