Messages in this thread | | | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ata:Remove no longer valid FIXME comment in pata_ninja32.c for the function,ninja32_init_one | Date | Thu, 05 Feb 2015 12:02:06 +0100 |
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Hi,
On Wednesday, February 04, 2015 06:47:41 PM Nicholas Krause wrote: > Removes the no longer valid fix me comment in the function, ninja32_init_one for > questioning if we are required to remove the activated device at the end of this > function by calling the function, ata_host_activate to activate the device passed > by the caller of the function ninja_init_one. This comment is no longer needed as > we need to deallocate the memory used to store this device's information when the > device is no longer in use by the system in order to avoid leaking memory. Due to > this the driver in the file,ninja32_init_one has the function,ata_pci_remove_one > to release the memory allocated in it's init function and therefore this comment > can now be removed due to use correctly freeing the memory allocated from the > driver's init function,ninja32_init_one. > > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@gmail.com> > --- > drivers/ata/pata_ninja32.c | 1 - > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/ata/pata_ninja32.c b/drivers/ata/pata_ninja32.c > index efb272d..47b30d3 100644 > --- a/drivers/ata/pata_ninja32.c > +++ b/drivers/ata/pata_ninja32.c > @@ -147,7 +147,6 @@ static int ninja32_init_one(struct pci_dev *dev, const struct pci_device_id *id) > ap->pflags = ATA_PFLAG_PIO32 | ATA_PFLAG_PIO32CHANGE; > > ninja32_program(base); > - /* FIXME: Should we disable them at remove ? */
After looking at the driver history I think that the comment is about ninja32_program() enabling interrupt lines (which don't get disabled when the host controller is detached from the driver) not about the cleanup done during ata_pci_remove_one(). Alan, is this correct?
> return ata_host_activate(host, dev->irq, ata_bmdma_interrupt, > IRQF_SHARED, &ninja32_sht); > }
Best regards, -- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Samsung R&D Institute Poland Samsung Electronics
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