From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: [PATCH 45/86] pata_legacy: do not probe extra ports automatically if PCI is not present Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:45:52 +0100 Message-ID: <200911251845.52700.bzolnier@gmail.com> References: <20091125170218.5446.13513.sendpatchset@localhost> <20091125170740.5446.67217.sendpatchset@localhost> <20091125173215.539b5630@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.154]:57215 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933090AbZKYRrD (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:47:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20091125173215.539b5630@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 25 November 2009 06:32:15 pm Alan Cox wrote: > On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:07:40 +0100 > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz > > Subject: [PATCH] pata_legacy: do not probe extra ports automatically if PCI is not present > > > > It can be problematic if there are other ISA/VLB devices using > > those ports. > > NAK. You made a rather peculiar set of changes in the IDE layer but the Please give commit numbers and describe such 'peculiar set of changes in the IDE layer' in more details or skip such baseless, unjust and pointless comments from your mails. > PCI handling in pata_legacy includes knowledge of the various half-pci > devices and on a non PCI system 0x1E8/0x168 are reserved for extra IDE. > > We've had no complaints at all, ever about this. OTOH We had. :) -- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz