linux-kernel - Re: AHCI should try to claim all AHCI controllers

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce john-users owl-users popa3d-users / xvendor oss-security / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Order Openwall GNU/*/Linux 2.0 on a CD with delivery worldwide

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:22:49 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>
Subject: Re: AHCI should try to claim all AHCI controllers

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> For the benefit of others, some background:  we should not be -removing- any
> PCI IDs due to this, because quite often the PCI class code will be RAID or
> something else, yet still be drive-able with this ahci driver.

Well, it might obviously be worthwhile removing the PCI ID's that actually 
do say that they are AHCI. Maybe that's not all of them, but I wouldn't be 
surprised if it's actually the majority of them..

(We had the same issue with "PCI IDE controller". Some PCI IDE controllers 
are clearly exactly that from a programming interface standpoint, but 
because they support RAID in hardware, they claim to be RAID controllers, 
since that is more "glamorous". Gaah ;^).

		Linus
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/