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From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Conke Hu <conke.hu@amd.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add IDE mode support for SB600 SATA
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:22:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061123112251.7976994c@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1164269159.31358.769.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

> is this really the right thing? You're overriding a user chosen
> configuration here.... while that might be justifiable.. it's probably a
> good idea to at least provide a safety-valve for this one. The user
> might have made that selection very deliberately.

Its what we do for other similar cases and I think its the right thing to
do in this situation. One reason for this is that with multi-boot boxes
you have to set the BIOS option to the dumbest one unless the smart OS's
reconfigure the device.

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-23 11:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-23  4:20 [PATCH] Add IDE mode support for SB600 SATA Conke Hu
2006-11-23  8:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-23 11:22   ` Alan [this message]
2006-11-23 13:12     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-23 11:21 ` Alan
2006-11-24  6:01 ` Tejun Heo
2006-11-24  7:05   ` Tejun Heo
2006-11-24 11:13     ` Alan
2006-11-25  1:43       ` Tejun Heo
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-11-24  5:21 Conke Hu
2006-11-23 16:35 Luugi Marsan
2006-11-23 16:45 ` Alan
2006-11-23 10:16 Conke Hu
2006-11-23  9:50 Conke Hu
2006-11-23  4:24 Conke Hu
2006-11-23  4:04 Conke Hu
2006-11-22 22:23 Conke Hu
2006-11-23  2:26 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-23 11:13   ` Alan
2006-11-23  2:31 ` Andrew Morton

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