- Add an ata_reset_channel() function that performs the common parts
of resetting an ATA channel, which uses the (*ata_reset_channel)()
callback to do the heavy lifting. Adjust callers to use ata_reset_channel()
instead of wdc_reset_channel().
This removes the last wdc-specific code from ata.c!
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2003/09/25/0006.html
This adds a device (atabus) between IDE controllers and wd or atapibus, to
have each ATA channel show up in the device tree. Later there will be atabus
devices in /dev, so that we can do IOCTL on them.
Each atabus has its own kernel thread, to handle operations that needs polling,
e.g. reset and others.
Device probing on each bus it defered to the atabus thread creation.
This allows to do the reset and basic device probes in parallel, which reduce
boot time on systems with several pciide controllers.
thorpej