Subject: Re: [PATCH/2.6.17-rc4 10/10] bugs fix for marvell SATA on powerp c pl atform

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 11:26:17 -0400

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 12:03 +0800, Zang Roy-r61911 wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kumar Gala [mailto:[email-masked]]
>> Sent: 2006年5月17日 21:28
>> To: Zang Roy-r61911
>> Cc: Paul Mackerras; linuxppc-dev list; [email-masked]; Yang Xin-Xin-r48390
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH/2.6.17-rc4 10/10] bugs fix for marvell SATA on powerpc pl atform
> 
> Copying here the comments I already made so Jeff gets them...
> 
>> @@ -1032,6 +1032,9 @@ static inline void mv_crqb_pack_cmd(u16 
>>  {
>>       *cmdw = data | (addr << CRQB_CMD_ADDR_SHIFT) | CRQB_CMD_CS |
>>               (last ? CRQB_CMD_LAST : 0);
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC
>> +     *cmdw = cpu_to_le16(*cmdw);
>> +#endif
>>  }
> 
> Why an ifdef here ? The cpu_to_le16 should probably be unconditional.
> And even if for some weird reason you wanted to ifdef it, why PPC ? and
> what about other BE architectures ?
>  
>>  /**
>> @@ -1567,13 +1570,18 @@ static void mv5_read_preamp(struct mv_ho
>>  static void mv5_enable_leds(struct mv_host_priv *hpriv, void __iomem
> *mmio)
>>  {
>>       u32 tmp;
>> -
>> +#ifndef CONFIG_PPC
>>       writel(0, mmio + MV_GPIO_PORT_CTL);
>> +#endif
> 
> You'll have to do better here too... I don't wee why when compiled on
> PPC, this driver should "magically" not clear those bits... At the very
> least, you should test the machine type if you want to do something
> specific to your platform, but first, you'll have to convince Jeff why
> this change has to be done in the first place and if there is a better
> way to handle it.

Correct...  it does seem some bugs were found, but #ifdef powerpc is 
certainly out of the question.  We want the driver to work without 
ifdefs on all platforms.

	Jeff