On 24 Mar 2003 17:40:08 +0000
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 16:01, Alexander Atanasov wrote:
> > I don't understand, what's the difference and how the list is
> > lost?
> > ata_unused used to hold all drives that were not claimed by any
> > driver, now idedefault_driver claims all that drives, all drives go
> > in the .list
>
> ata_unused -> unattached device slots, new hotplug discoveries
Ok.
> idedefault_driver -> attached/known devices with no driver
> other list -> driven by that driver
>
> > The bug is there, and waiting to explode, keeping both lists would
> > mean to add one more list head in ide_drive_t, is that the fix
> > you want?
>
> I don't see where stuff is ending up on both lists yet. I've not had
> time to look hard at it though
>
It happens this way:
ide_register_driver -> ata_attach -> idedefault_driver.attach -> ide_register_subdriver -> list_add(&driver->list, &driver->drives) ->
return to ata_attach -> list_add_tail(&drive->list, &ata_unused);
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