Re: [git patches] libata updates

Jeff Garzik
2007-05-10T00:18:28Z

Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Sunday, April 29, 2007 9:15 am Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Noteworthy changes:
>> * remove combined mode PCI quirk. IDE driver selection (libata or
>> old-IDE) is now determined purely by module load order.
>> * new driver API, that is far more like other kernel APIs:
>> alloc...register...unregister...free.
>> * More Alan PATA work
>> * Lots of other little bits.
>
>> drivers/pci/quirks.c | 113 ----
>
> Looks like you removed the combined_mode quirk (yay!) but didn't update
> kernel-parameters.txt... might confuse people. Here's a patch to remove
> mention of it from the documentation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@intel.com>
>
> Thanks,
> Jesse
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> index 84c3bd0..49b1ea3 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -722,14 +722,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
> inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
> Format: <irq>
>
> - combined_mode= [HW] control which driver uses IDE ports in combined
> - mode: legacy IDE driver, libata, or both
> - (in the libata case, libata.atapi_enabled=1 may be
> - useful as well). Note that using the ide or libata
> - options may affect your device naming (e.g. by
> - changing hdc to sdb).
> - Format: combined (default), ide, or libata
> -

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