From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: [PATCH] IDE: don't offer IDE_GENERIC on ia64 Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:02:00 +0200 Message-ID: <58cb370e050816030248e6283c@mail.gmail.com> References: <200508111424.43150.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <20050811203437.GA9265@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Received: from nproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.182.201]:64807 "EHLO nproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965181AbVHPKCB convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Aug 2005 06:02:01 -0400 Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x37so252813nfc for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 03:02:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20050811203437.GA9265@infradead.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig , Bjorn Helgaas , B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On 8/11/05, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 02:24:43PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > IA64 boxes only have PCI IDE devices, so there's no need to blindly poke > > around in I/O port space. Poking at things that don't exist causes MCAs > > on HP ia64 systems. > > Maybe it should instead depend on those systems where it is available. > Anything but X86? Don't forget that arch specific drivers use IDE_GENERIC *indirectly* to probe for devices. Bartlomiej