Re: 2.6.18-rc7-git1: AHCI not seeing devices on ICH8 mobo (DG965RY)

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> I don't really like this port_tbl approach.  I think it complicates 
> things too much.
>
> Direct indexing should be fine.  For the non-linear case, just make sure 
> the non-existent ports are always dummy ports.  If the driver directly 
> references a port we know isn't there, that's just an AHCI bug to be 
> fixed...

I thought about that too, but it will end up with ata1-6 with dummy 3 
and 4 while the BIOS shows continuous 4 ports.  I wanted avoid this 
discrepancy as it could cause confusion to users.

The other option is adding pp->port_idx to record hw port index.  It 
does make the code a bit simpler.  What do you think about this?

Thanks.

--
tejun
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