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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-ide@linux.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: IDE generic tweak
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:46:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <416D8620.5090001@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1097679269.4696.18.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mer, 2004-10-13 at 16:49, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>>nVidia for example specifically wanted it because future __SATA__
>>hardware will appear at the legacy IDE addresses, and end users were
>>requesting for similar reasons.
> 
> 
> Guess we need a pair of options with similar names to specify who
> grabs the generic devices. That should be fine because it never wants
> to be automatic anyway

Can two drivers declare __setup() with the same string, I wonder?

Then you could do 'idegeneric=yes' and 'idegeneric=libata' or somesuch.

	Jeff

      reply	other threads:[~2004-10-13 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-13 14:24 PATCH: IDE generic tweak Alan Cox
2004-10-13 15:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-13 14:39   ` Alan Cox
2004-10-13 15:49     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-13 14:54       ` Alan Cox
2004-10-13 19:46         ` Jeff Garzik [this message]

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