From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422822AbWJUTTW (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 15:19:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422827AbWJUTTW (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 15:19:22 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:3054 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422822AbWJUTTV (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 15:19:21 -0400 Message-ID: <453A72B5.3000205@pobox.com> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 15:19:17 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060913) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dhowells@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata-sff: Allow for wacky systems References: <1161012290.24237.68.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1161012290.24237.68.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.7 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > There are some Linux supported platforms that simply cannot hit the low > I/O addresses used by ATA legacy mode PCI mappings. These platforms have > a window for PCI space that is fixed by the board logic and doesn't > include the neccessary locations. > > Provide a config option so that such platforms faced with a controller > that they cannot support simply error it and punt > > Signed-off-by: Alan Cox applied