From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bjorn Helgaas Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:37:46 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] IDE: don't offer IDE_GENERIC on ia64 Message-Id: <200508111437.46958.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> List-Id: References: <200508111424.43150.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <20050811203437.GA9265@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20050811203437.GA9265@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 11 August 2005 2:34 pm, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 02:24:43PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > IA64 boxes only have PCI IDE devices, so there's no need to blindly poke > > around in I/O port space. Poking at things that don't exist causes MCAs > > on HP ia64 systems. > > Maybe it should instead depend on those systems where it is available. > Anything but X86? I'm OK with that, but don't want to be responsible for coming up with the list of systems where it should be available :-)