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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Patrick Gefre <pfg@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, matthew@wil.cx
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Altix : ioc4 serial driver support
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:37:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <58cb370e05020213371d308106@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <420139BF.4000100@sgi.com>

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 14:36:15 -0600, Patrick Gefre <pfg@sgi.com> wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Do you need to use ide_pci_register_driver?  IOC4 doesn't have the legacy
> > IDE problems, and it's never used together with such devices in a system,
> > so a plain pci_register_driver should do it.
> >
> 
> So ide_pci_register_driver is only for legacy devices with certain IDE
> problems - I think that is what you are saying (just trying to make sure
> I have it right) ??

ide_pci_register() is needed because of legacy ordering assumptions
(from BIOS and/or Windows) in case of many PCI IDE devices.  If there
is no possibility of other IDE PCI devices on your architecture it is safe to
call pci_register_driver() directly (see ide_scan_pcibus() in setup-pci.c).

BTW IDE part of the patch looks OK.

Thanks,
Bartlomiej

  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-02 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-22  0:28 [PATCH] 2.6.10 Altix : ioc4 serial driver support Pat Gefre
2004-12-22 13:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-12-22 14:03   ` Russell King
2004-12-22 15:20     ` Patrick Gefre
2004-12-22 18:49       ` Russell King
2004-12-22 19:53   ` Patrick Gefre
2004-12-22 20:33     ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-01-03 14:09     ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-31 22:45       ` [PATCH] " Pat Gefre
2005-02-01  9:23         ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-02-02 20:36           ` Patrick Gefre
2005-02-02 21:37             ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
2005-02-02 21:57             ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-02-07 15:58               ` Patrick Gefre
2005-02-07 16:25                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-02-08 16:52                   ` Patrick Gefre
2005-02-08 19:32                     ` Patrick Gefre
2005-02-10 19:09                     ` Jesse Barnes
2005-02-10 19:15                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-02-10 21:07                         ` Patrick Gefre
2005-02-17 21:55                           ` Patrick Gefre

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