From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcel Holtmann Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] fastboot: use a DMI match table to set defaults for port-disable Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:09:11 +0200 Message-ID: <1218503351.25524.28.camel@californication> References: <20080811153542.61095e5c@infradead.org> <20080811153730.74599410@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080811153730.74599410@infradead.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Hi Arjan, > Subject: [PATCH] libata: use a DMI match table to set defaults for port-disable > > As suggested by Jeff: > This patch adds a DMI table that is used for setting defaults for > the new dont-probe-port parameter boot time optimization feature. > > Initially, the table only contains the Asus EeePC 901 as this is the > device I have for testing. last time I had mine open, I saw that the other ATA connectors are in theory usable. You have to do some heavy modifications, but some people do modifications to this kind of hardware to use it for really weird purposes. We might wanna consider adding a module parameter to disable the magic DMI table. Or do we expect them to always compile their own kernel and know where to fix this? Thoughts? Regards Marcel