Re: [PATCH] pata_parport: second preview

Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ide,gmane.linux.block,gmane.linux.parport,gmane.linux.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 11:49:09PM +0100, Ondrej Zary wrote:
> Protocol registration could be improved - I don't like protocols[] and
> protocol numbers, devices should probably be created by protocol name.
> Also the LPT port base addresses should probably be replaced by port names
> (like parport0).
> 
> The bpck driver seems to need to know if a CD drive is attached (weird) but
> I doubt that I can get such info from libata.

You can check adev->class == ATA_DEV_ATAPI, there's a bunch of drivers
that already do that.

I'll try to take a look at the actual patch once I find a bit of time.
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