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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:02:00 +0200
From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>, B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl,
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       linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IDE: don't offer IDE_GENERIC on ia64
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On 8/11/05, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 02:24:43PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > IA64 boxes only have PCI IDE devices, so there's no need to blindly poke
> > around in I/O port space.  Poking at things that don't exist causes MCAs
> > on HP ia64 systems.
> 
> Maybe it should instead depend on those systems where it is available.
> Anything but X86?

Don't forget that arch specific drivers use IDE_GENERIC *indirectly*
to probe for devices.

Bartlomiej