linux-kernel - Re: [discuss] "ide=reverse" do we still need this?

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Message-ID: <1237.1202889295@sora.hank.home>
Date:	Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:54:55 +0100
From:	Dirk GOUDERS <hank@...bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
cc:	bzolnier@...il.com, muli@...ibm.com, discuss@...-64.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	jdmason@...zu.us, linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Subject: Re: [discuss] "ide=reverse" do we still need this? 

Hi,

> I'm reworking the pci device list logic (we currently keep all PCI
> devices in 2 lists, which isn't the nicest, we should be able to get
> away with only 1 list.)
> 
> The only bother I've found so far is the pci_get_device_reverse()
> function, it's used in 2 places, IDE and the calgary driver.
> 
> I'm curious if we really still support the ide=reverse option?  It's a
> config option that I don't think the distros still enable (SuSE does
> not).  Is this still needed these days?
> 
> In digging, we changed this option in 2.2.x from being called
> "pci=reverse" and no one else seems to miss it.
> 
> Any thoughts?

I remember vaguely that some years ago, we set up a box with four IDE
disks as a RAID set.  For that purpose, we added a PCI ATA100 controller
so that each disk could act as a primary IDE device and we were only able
to boot the system with the option ide=reverse.
That box has been replaced by some other so I cannot verify it but as
far as I remember it was a problem with disk numbering between BIOS,
bootloader and/or kernel.  Also, at that time we used lilo and I am not
sure if grub would have done better.

Dirk
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