From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269804AbUJMTve (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:51:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269785AbUJMTvF (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:51:05 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:52384 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269804AbUJMTqx (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:46:53 -0400 Message-ID: <416D8620.5090001@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:46:40 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-ide@linux.kernel.org Subject: Re: PATCH: IDE generic tweak References: <1097677476.4764.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20041013153152.GA5458@havoc.gtf.org> <1097678363.4696.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20041013154916.GA6832@havoc.gtf.org> <1097679269.4696.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1097679269.4696.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > On Mer, 2004-10-13 at 16:49, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>nVidia for example specifically wanted it because future __SATA__ >>hardware will appear at the legacy IDE addresses, and end users were >>requesting for similar reasons. > > > Guess we need a pair of options with similar names to specify who > grabs the generic devices. That should be fine because it never wants > to be automatic anyway Can two drivers declare __setup() with the same string, I wonder? Then you could do 'idegeneric=yes' and 'idegeneric=libata' or somesuch. Jeff