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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Fix ide probe double detection
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:22:44 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1091071364.13625.37.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040727224629.GA17147@devserv.devel.redhat.com>

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 08:46, Alan Cox wrote:
> Some devices don't decode master/slave - notably PCMCIA adapters. 
> Unfortunately for us some also do, which makes it hard to guess if we
> should probe the slave.
> 
> This patch fixes the problem by probing the slave and then using the model
> and serial information to spot undecoded pairs. An additional check is done
> to catch pairs of pre ATA devices just in case.

What about checking if drive->select sticks ? And if that doesn't work,
something like

- select 0
- write a value to reg X
- select 1
- write a different value to reg X
- select 0
- check value

reg X could be nsect or such ...

I don't like relying on drive->id and serial_no, but that may just be
paranoia...

Ben.



  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-29  3:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-27 22:46 PATCH: Fix ide probe double detection Alan Cox
2004-07-29  3:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-07-29 13:39   ` Alan Cox
2004-07-29 15:56   ` Doug Maxey
2004-07-29 16:02     ` Alan Cox

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