From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:16:12 -0600
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] SATA: do not auto-initialize during boot
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Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday 11 December 2008 16:01:33 Scott Wood wrote:
>> Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> why ?  if the hardware doesnt support it, then the user shouldnt be
>>> attempting to use it.  if they do, that's their fault for doing something
>>> stupid.
>> There's no need to be unnecessarily user-hostile.
> 
> there's no need to make u-boot unnecessarily safe for the people who dont 
> understand the system

Oh, please.  It's not like it's stopping any reasonable usage (quite the 
opposite -- removing the check removes a way for the user to find out 
whether SATA is present); it's just avoiding exposing a device that does 
not actually exist.

-Scott