Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
Enable enclosure management via LED
As described in the AHCI spec, some AHCI controllers may support
Enclosure management via a variety of protocols. This patch
adds support for the LED message type that is specified in
AHCI 1.1 and higher.
Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <[email protected]>
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drivers/ata/ahci.c | 153 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c | 5 -
include/linux/libata.h | 3
3 files changed, 157 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Comments:
1) it seems a bit questionable that the attributes are globally
writeable, even by unpriveleged heathens?
2) ahci_led_locate_store() and ahci_led_fault()_store are the same, save
for a single constant
3) Don't document ahci_em_messages values (like SGPIO) which are not
actually supported in the code. Feel free to put these in a comment to
make sure others follow your lead, however
4) ahci_transmit_led_message() is issued completely without any locking.
that does not look safe in the face of libata-eh doing a reset?
5) please run through scripts/checkpatch in 2.6.24-rc1, there are
several "use tabs not spaces" type errors and some other minor style nits
6) ATA_FLAG_EM is added but never used
7) Is it valid to check capabilities bit 6 (EMS) on AHCI 1.0? I would
tend to shy away from assuming that all silicon gives us sane 'reserved'
bits :)
8) when is this actually used? do you have a sample user in userspace?
does a userspace daemon watch disk activity and manage LEDs somehow?
I'm a bit cloudy on the usage need of this.
9) overall, sans the above comments, the overall goal seems OK to me,
and the patch seems pretty good.
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