From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: No IDE drivers loaded for Toshiba Satellite 320 CDS
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:48:32 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48100310.3060300@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080417140506.GC7385@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> After all I thought the whole point of all the ports listed in
> /proc/ioports was to indicate which io ports were currently reserved by
> which driver so that no other driver could try to access them. If it
> doesn't in fact work that way then it probably should.
It does work most of the time and it's probably safe to load legacy /
generic drivers on most configurations. It's just that we're talking
about 15+ years of gap between ISA and PCI-e and there could be some
exceptions and we might need to tread a bit more carefully. To me, it
sounds reasonable.
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-24 3:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-02 13:24 No IDE drivers loaded for Toshiba Satellite 320 CDS Frans Pop
2008-04-02 13:27 ` Frans Pop
2008-04-02 13:57 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-02 14:29 ` Frans Pop
2008-04-02 15:46 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-02 16:20 ` Frans Pop
2008-04-02 19:49 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-03 17:47 ` Frans Pop
2008-04-03 19:31 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-04 6:59 ` Frans Pop
2008-04-13 2:39 ` Tejun Heo
2008-04-13 13:59 ` Frans Pop
2008-04-14 13:52 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-14 13:56 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-14 13:56 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-14 15:29 ` Frans Pop
2008-04-14 15:48 ` Frans Pop
2008-04-14 13:47 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-14 13:53 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-14 13:53 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-15 2:37 ` Tejun Heo
2008-04-15 10:04 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-15 23:25 ` Tejun Heo
2008-04-15 14:47 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-15 23:31 ` Tejun Heo
2008-04-16 18:08 ` Frans Pop
2008-04-16 22:12 ` Tejun Heo
2008-04-17 14:05 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-24 3:48 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2008-04-16 23:24 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-02 16:33 ` Ondrej Zary
2008-04-02 20:05 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-02 20:10 ` Ondrej Zary
2008-04-02 20:22 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-02 20:34 ` Ondrej Zary
2008-04-03 17:50 ` Alan Cox
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