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2006-11-22	WorkStruct: Pass the work_struct pointer instead of context data	David Howells
	Pass the work_struct pointer to the work function rather than context data. The work function can use container_of() to work out the data. For the cases where the container of the work_struct may go away the moment the pending bit is cleared, it is made possible to defer the release of the structure by deferring the clearing of the pending bit. To make this work, an extra flag is introduced into the management side of the work_struct. This governs auto-release of the structure upon execution. Ordinarily, the work queue executor would release the work_struct for further scheduling or deallocation by clearing the pending bit prior to jumping to the work function. This means that, unless the driver makes some guarantee itself that the work_struct won't go away, the work function may not access anything else in the work_struct or its container lest they be deallocated.. This is a problem if the auxiliary data is taken away (as done by the last patch). However, if the pending bit is not cleared before jumping to the work function, then the work function may access the work_struct and its container with no problems. But then the work function must itself release the work_struct by calling work_release(). In most cases, automatic release is fine, so this is the default. Special initiators exist for the non-auto-release case (ending in _NAR). Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-10-31	[PATCH] libata: unexport ata_dev_revalidate()	Tejun Heo
	ata_dev_revalidate() isn't used outside of libata core. Unexport it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-08-24	libata: Grand renaming.	Jeff Garzik
	The biggest change is that ata_host_set is renamed to ata_host. * ata_host_set => ata_host * ata_probe_ent->host_flags => ata_probe_ent->port_flags * ata_probe_ent->host_set_flags => ata_probe_ent->_host_flags * ata_host_stats => ata_port_stats * ata_port->host => ata_port->scsi_host * ata_port->host_set => ata_port->host * ata_port_info->host_flags => ata_port_info->flags * ata_(.)host_set(.)\(\) => ata_\1host\2() The leading underscore in ata_probe_ent->_host_flags is to avoid reusing ->host_flags for different purpose. Currently, the only user of the field is libata-bmdma.c and probe_ent itself is scheduled to be removed. ata_port->host is reused for different purpose but this field is used inside libata core proper and of different type. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-08-10	Move libata to drivers/ata.	Jeff Garzik