Re: [PATCH] Configure IDE probe delays

Jeff Garzik
2004-07-31T21:45:12Z

Lee Revell wrote:
> Even if it's not appropriate for this case, there have to be some places
> in the kernel where this would be useful. What about hardware that is
> broken, requiring a device-specific kludge? Hardware that the kernel
> developers would prefer didn't exist. There have to be some of these.
> Or are most of these already broken out and disabled by default like the
> old CMD640 ide bug?

Broken hardware will always exist. Sounds like you want
CONFIG_PERFECT_WORLD ?

Jeff