From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rene Herman Subject: Re: "ide=reverse" do we still need this? Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:41:07 +0100 Message-ID: <47B24AB3.3040009@keyaccess.nl> References: <20080213001506.GA13933@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl ([213.51.146.201]:57167 "EHLO smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751526AbYBMBja (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:39:30 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20080213001506.GA13933@kroah.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Greg KH Cc: bzolnier@gmail.com, muli@il.ibm.com, jdmason@kudzu.us, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org On 13-02-08 01:15, Greg KH wrote: > I'm reworking the pci device list logic (we currently keep all PCI > devices in 2 lists, which isn't the nicest, we should be able to get > away with only 1 list.) > > The only bother I've found so far is the pci_get_device_reverse() > function, it's used in 2 places, IDE and the calgary driver. > > I'm curious if we really still support the ide=reverse option? It's a > config option that I don't think the distros still enable (SuSE does > not). Is this still needed these days? > > In digging, we changed this option in 2.2.x from being called > "pci=reverse" and no one else seems to miss it. > > Any thoughts? While details escape me somewhat again at the monment, a few months ago I was playing around with a PCI Promise IDE controller and needed ide=reverse to save me from having to switch disks around to still have a bootable system. Or some such. Not too clear anymore, but I remember it saved the day. Rene.