Re: [PATCH] libata: fix broken Kconfig setup

Jesse Barnes
2005-10-17T17:06:54Z

On Monday, October 17, 2005 10:03 am, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > It does, since it prevents one of the ports from being bound by the
> > legacy IDE driver. But the whole thing is rather hackish to begin
> > with, and I prefer this hack to the existing code (in fact, Andrew
> > already queued up a patch from me in -mm that looks just like
> > yours).
> >
> > Ultimately, when libata gets ATAPI support, I think we just have to
> > declare libata and legacy IDE to be incompatible for combined mode
> > devices and remove the quirk. Then whichever driver loads first
> > will get the whole device, as it should.
>
> I would love to remove the quirk completely!
>
> Unfortunately combined mode is a runtime BIOS configuration, and there
> is also the lockup issue I mentioned in another email.

So sometimes the legacy IDE driver will lock up when it tries to drive
both ports in a combined configuration? In that case, can't we just
disable the legacy IDE driver for these chips and force the use of the
libata version?

Jesse