From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: No IDE drivers loaded for Toshiba Satellite 320 CDS Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:48:32 +0900 Message-ID: <48100310.3060300@gmail.com> References: <200804021524.27222.elendil@planet.nl> <20080415144748.GO7385@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <48053AD1.8010007@gmail.com> <200804162008.27655.elendil@planet.nl> <480679D3.7030705@gmail.com> <20080417140506.GC7385@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.198.242]:53083 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753630AbYDXDsl (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:48:41 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id k29so1699223rvb.1 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:48:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20080417140506.GC7385@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Lennart Sorensen Cc: Frans Pop , Alan Cox , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Lennart Sorensen wrote: > After all I thought the whole point of all the ports listed in > /proc/ioports was to indicate which io ports were currently reserved by > which driver so that no other driver could try to access them. If it > doesn't in fact work that way then it probably should. It does work most of the time and it's probably safe to load legacy / generic drivers on most configurations. It's just that we're talking about 15+ years of gap between ISA and PCI-e and there could be some exceptions and we might need to tread a bit more carefully. To me, it sounds reasonable. Thanks. -- tejun