Re: PATCH: clean up the IDE iops, add ones for a dead iface

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
19 Feb 2003 01:53:04 +0000


On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 23:09, Russell King wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 06:03:21PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > +static u8 ide_unplugged_inb (unsigned long port)
> > +{
> > + return 0xFF;
> > +}
>
> Shouldn't this return 0x7f, ie bit 7 clear, as if we have an interface
> without drive attached?

0xFF is what most hardware returns for an unclaimed pci address. I'd rather
make sure it also works when we don't get the event, or the device
summarily explodes than fake up something to make it look good. If
0xff doesnt work we have a bug anyway, lets find them.

Alan

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