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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
	jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] remove ata_cable_sata()
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:50:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080424155025.2bcf0f9b@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080424104406.GB2559@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>

> I thought that you could simply set .flags in a driver without needing 
> any helper for .cable_detect .

In some cases yes, but exporting the complete set provides a logical and
complete API for drivers in case they do need to do so.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-04-24 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-21  8:51 Adrian Bunk
2008-04-23 18:22 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-24 10:44   ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-24 14:50     ` Alan Cox [this message]

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