From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
davej@redhat.com, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: fix broken Kconfig setup
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:56:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43556165.1080307@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051018151526.5f4deef6.vsu@altlinux.ru>
Sergey Vlasov wrote:
> The IDE=y part seems to be incorrect - quirk_intel_ide_combined() is
> needed even with modular IDE. Without this quirk you will get one of
> these configurations depending on the module load order:
>
> 1) ata_piix loads first - it grabs the whole controller, including the
> PATA port; the IDE module loaded later finds nothing.
>
> 2) IDE modules are loaded first - without the quirk IDE drivers will
> grab the whole controller, including the SATA part.
>
> The binding you get with builtin IDE (ata_piix/ahci for SATA, generic
> IDE driver for PATA) would be impossible to get with modular IDE without
> the quirk, which does not seem to be good...
This is a reasonable point, but the rare person who runs modular IDE on
these PATA/SATA combined mode beasts can certainly tell the IDE driver
to not probe certain ports.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-18 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-17 4:46 [PATCH] libata: fix broken Kconfig setup Jeff Garzik
2005-10-17 11:10 ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-10-17 11:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-17 15:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-17 15:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-17 15:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-17 16:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-17 16:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-17 16:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-17 17:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-17 17:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-17 17:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-19 11:49 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-10-19 16:02 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-10-17 17:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-18 11:15 ` Sergey Vlasov
2005-10-18 20:56 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2005-10-17 17:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-17 17:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-17 16:52 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-10-17 17:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-17 17:06 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-10-17 17:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-20 14:14 ` Alan Cox
2005-10-20 16:45 ` Jesse Barnes
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