Re: [PATCH 7/8] ide: make legacy IDE VLB modules check for the "probe" kernel params

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 14 February 2007 11:53, Alan wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:57:12 +0100
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> 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

We don't have stable rules for kernel parameters.

In theory they can be gone as soon as in 2.6.22 if patch hits 2.6.21
(not that I intend to do this).

> questions, confusion, noise and hassle, leave the old options be and make
> the module options work too.

I'll make warnings more verbose, i.e.

'please use "ali14xx.probe" boot option instead of obsoleted "ide0=probe"'

which should greatly help to avoid questions/confusion/noise/hassle.

Bart