From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: xerces8 <xerces8@butn.net>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
stein@hermes.si
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ide: note that IDE generic may prevent other drivers from attaching
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:13:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200809271913.53160.bzolnier@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48CA2AA0.8000302@kernel.org>
On Friday 12 September 2008, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Enabling IDE generic may prevent ATA controllers located on legacy
> ports from being attached to more proper driver or can prevent other
> controllers which share the IRQ from working. Note it in the help
> message.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
applied
> ---
> drivers/ide/Kconfig | 14 ++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/ide/Kconfig b/drivers/ide/Kconfig
> index fc735ab..5e5b2d3 100644
> --- a/drivers/ide/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/ide/Kconfig
> @@ -292,6 +292,20 @@ config IDE_GENERIC
> tristate "generic/default IDE chipset support"
> depends on ALPHA || X86 || IA64 || M32R || MIPS
> help
> + This is the generic IDE driver. This driver attaches to the
> + fixed legacy ports (e.g. on PCs 0x1f0/0x170, 0x1e8/0x168 and
> + so on). Please note that if this driver is built into the
> + kernel or loaded before other ATA (IDE or libata) drivers
> + and the controller is located at legacy ports, this driver
> + will grab those ports and thus can prevent the controller
> + specific driver from attaching.
s/will grab/may grab/ since Borislav has fixed PCI-case for .28
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-27 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-22 15:29 Intel AHCI ICH9R not detecting devices xerces8
2008-08-30 10:40 ` Tejun Heo
2008-08-30 19:42 ` xerces8
2008-09-01 9:13 ` Tejun Heo
2008-09-01 10:40 ` xerces8
2008-09-06 18:12 ` xerces8
2008-09-06 21:31 ` xerces8
2008-09-08 11:35 ` Tejun Heo
2008-09-08 11:43 ` xerces8
2008-09-08 11:54 ` Tejun Heo
2008-09-12 7:53 ` xerces8
2008-09-12 8:38 ` [PATCH] ide: note that IDE generic may prevent other drivers from attaching Tejun Heo
2008-09-27 17:13 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
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