Some tidying as suggested by Grant Grundler.

Nuke local bit-counting function from sata_mv in favour of using hweight16().
Also add a short explanation for the 15msec timeout used when waiting for empty/idle.
Signed-off-by: NMark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>