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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: PATCH: IDE generic tweak
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:46:40 -0400
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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