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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: 2.6.17-mm4
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:07:53 +0100
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Ar Gwe, 2006-06-30 am 01:05 +0200, ysgrifennodd Ingo Molnar:
> it does things like:
> 
>         static const unsigned long qd_port[2] = { 0x30, 0xB0 };
>         static const unsigned long ide_port[2] = { 0x170, 0x1F0 };
> 
>         [...]
>                 unsigned long port = qd_port[i];
>         [...]
>                         r = inb_p(port);
>                         outb_p(0x19, port);
>                         res = inb_p(port);
>                         outb_p(r, port);
> 
> so it reads/writes port 0x30 and 0xb0. Are those used by something else 
> on modern hardware?

Not especially. Perhaps the best thing to do here would be to make qdi
compiled into the kernel (as opposed to modular) only do so if
"probe_qdi=1" or similar is set.

Will sort that out if nobody beats me to it.

Alan