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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/ide/ide-probe.c | 49 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c b/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c index 873471dfb9b..b812b98744e 100644 --- a/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c +++ b/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c @@ -634,7 +634,33 @@ static void hwif_register (ide_hwif_t *hwif) __FUNCTION__, ret); } -static int wait_hwif_ready(ide_hwif_t *hwif) +/** + * ide_port_wait_ready - wait for port to become ready + * @hwif: IDE port + * + * This is needed on some PPCs and a bunch of BIOS-less embedded + * platforms. Typical cases are: + * + * - The firmware hard reset the disk before booting the kernel, + * the drive is still doing it's poweron-reset sequence, that + * can take up to 30 seconds. + * + * - The firmware does nothing (or no firmware), the device is + * still in POST state (same as above actually). + * + * - Some CD/DVD/Writer combo drives tend to drive the bus during + * their reset sequence even when they are non-selected slave + * devices, thus preventing discovery of the main HD. + * + * Doing this wait-for-non-busy should not harm any existing + * configuration and fix some issues like the above. + * + * BenH. + * + * Returns 0 on success, error code (< 0) otherwise. + */ + +static int ide_port_wait_ready(ide_hwif_t *hwif) { int unit, rc; @@ -742,26 +768,7 @@ static void probe_hwif(ide_hwif_t *hwif) local_irq_set(flags); - /* This is needed on some PPCs and a bunch of BIOS-less embedded - * platforms. Typical cases are: - * - * - The firmware hard reset the disk before booting the kernel, - * the drive is still doing it's poweron-reset sequence, that - * can take up to 30 seconds - * - The firmware does nothing (or no firmware), the device is - * still in POST state (same as above actually). - * - Some CD/DVD/Writer combo drives tend to drive the bus during - * their reset sequence even when they are non-selected slave - * devices, thus preventing discovery of the main HD - * - * Doing this wait-for-busy should not harm any existing configuration - * (at least things won't be worse than what current code does, that - * is blindly go & talk to the drive) and fix some issues like the - * above. - * - * BenH. - */ - if (wait_hwif_ready(hwif) == -EBUSY) + if (ide_port_wait_ready(hwif) == -EBUSY) printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: Wait for ready failed before probe !\n", hwif->name); /* |