[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 3/7] drivers: block: disk-uclass: implement scsi_init()

Mugunthan V N mugunthanvnm at ti.com
Mon Feb 8 12:23:42 CET 2016


On Sunday 07 February 2016 01:59 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Bin,
> 
> On 3 February 2016 at 04:59, Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm at ti.com> wrote:
>>
>> Implement scsi_init() api to probe driver model based sata
>> devices.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm at ti.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/block/disk-uclass.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 39 insertions(+)
> 
> This patch seems odd to me. I would hope that scsi_init() would go
> away with driver model and it would happen as part of the controller
> probe. But of course we cannot probe SCSI from UCLASS_DISK. I think
> the uclass 'disk' is too broad to be useful.
> 
> So I am wondering whether the decision to use UCLASS_DISK instead of
> UCLASS_AHCI was a mistake.
> 
> Perhaps instead we should have:
> 
> UCLASS_AHCI
> UCLASS_SCSI
> UCLASS_MMC
> etc...
> 
> and each of these devices can have a UCLASS_BLK under them (the block device).
> 
> Possibly we could even have a dummy UCLASS_DISK device under each of
> the above, but I'm not sure that is useful.
> 
> What do you think?
> 

Hmmm, this sounds a better approach to me also. So that we can abstract
all bulk related activities to UCLASS_BLK. I can do an RFC if you are okay?

Regards
Mugunthan V N



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