From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] ide: make legacy IDE VLB modules check for the "probe" kernel params Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:53:29 +0000 Message-ID: <20070214105329.3cc6ec27@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070214015603.4619.41923.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <20070214015712.4619.78705.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:49247 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751558AbXBNKjc (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:39:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20070214015712.4619.78705.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:57:12 +0100 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > [PATCH] ide: make legacy IDE VLB modules check for the "probe" kernel params > > Legacy IDE VLB host drivers didn't check for "probe" options when compiled > as modules, which was obviously wrong as we don't want module to poke at > random I/O ports by simply loading it. Fix it by adding "probe" module param > to legacy IDE VLB host drivers and obsolete old "ide0=dtc2278", "ide0=ht6560b", > "ide0=qd65xx", "ide0=ali14xx", "ide0=umc8672" IDE driver options. No point obsoleting the old ones. By the time being obsolete turns into being anything like "gone", the hardware won't exist. It just causes questions, confusion, noise and hassle, leave the old options be and make the module options work too. Alan