From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: No IDE drivers loaded for Toshiba Satellite 320 CDS
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:12:35 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <480679D3.7030705@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200804162008.27655.elendil@planet.nl>
Frans Pop wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 April 2008, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Yeah, theoretically, you're right. The problem is that what breaks when
>> things go wrong. If you don't probe generic ports by default, harddisks
>> won't be detected on some legacy systems but you can always prompt the
>> user about loading the generic driver. If you probe generic ports by
>> default, when things go wrong, you break modern machines in an
>> unrecoverable (w/o reset) way. I'd rather choose bothering the user on
>> legacy machines.
>
> The problem here is determining whether a machine is "legacy" or not.
> So far in this discussion I've seen no suggestions how to do that (except
> maybe for my test whether /sys/bus/isa is present), which would mean asking
> _all_ users, and that's a damned ugly option.
Asking when no harddisk is detected w/ the option to choose it
explicitly should do for most cases. No?
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-16 22:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-02 13:24 No IDE drivers loaded for Toshiba Satellite 320 CDS Frans Pop
2008-04-02 13:27 ` Frans Pop
2008-04-02 13:57 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-02 14:29 ` Frans Pop
2008-04-02 15:46 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-02 16:20 ` Frans Pop
2008-04-02 19:49 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-03 17:47 ` Frans Pop
2008-04-03 19:31 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-04 6:59 ` Frans Pop
2008-04-13 2:39 ` Tejun Heo
2008-04-13 13:59 ` Frans Pop
2008-04-14 13:52 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-14 13:56 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-14 15:29 ` Frans Pop
2008-04-14 15:48 ` Frans Pop
2008-04-14 13:47 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-14 13:53 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-15 2:37 ` Tejun Heo
2008-04-15 10:04 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-15 23:25 ` Tejun Heo
2008-04-15 14:47 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-15 23:31 ` Tejun Heo
2008-04-16 18:08 ` Frans Pop
2008-04-16 22:12 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2008-04-17 14:05 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-24 3:48 ` Tejun Heo
2008-04-16 23:24 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-02 16:33 ` Ondrej Zary
2008-04-02 20:05 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-02 20:10 ` Ondrej Zary
2008-04-02 20:22 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-02 20:34 ` Ondrej Zary
2008-04-03 17:50 ` Alan Cox
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