From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: fix broken Kconfig setup Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:03:43 -0400 Message-ID: <4353D96F.90805@pobox.com> References: <20051017044606.GA1266@havoc.gtf.org> <200510170952.34174.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200510170952.34174.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jesse Barnes Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davej@redhat.com List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Jesse Barnes wrote: > It does, since it prevents one of the ports from being bound by the > legacy IDE driver. But the whole thing is rather hackish to begin with, > and I prefer this hack to the existing code (in fact, Andrew already > queued up a patch from me in -mm that looks just like yours). > > Ultimately, when libata gets ATAPI support, I think we just have to > declare libata and legacy IDE to be incompatible for combined mode > devices and remove the quirk. Then whichever driver loads first will > get the whole device, as it should. I would love to remove the quirk completely! Unfortunately combined mode is a runtime BIOS configuration, and there is also the lockup issue I mentioned in another email. Jeff