linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/12] ide: add ide-4drives host driver

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Message-ID: <47BAD3AE.7060906@ru.mvista.com>
Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:03:42 +0300
From:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>
To:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/12] ide: add ide-4drives host driver

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_4DRIVES deserves its own host driver:

> * Add drivers/ide/legacy/ide-4drives.c and move "4drives" support there.

> * Add ide-4drives.o in the link order after all other legacy host
>   drivers enabled by "ide0=" options (they all are mutually exclusive).

> * Make ide-4drives host driver probe itself for IDE devices instead of
>   indirectly depending on ide_generic host driver.

> * Add "probe" module parameter to ide-4drives and update documentation.

> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>

> Index: b/drivers/ide/Kconfig
> ===================================================================
> --- a/drivers/ide/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/ide/Kconfig
> @@ -1042,8 +1042,8 @@ config BLK_DEV_4DRIVES
>  	  Certain older chipsets, including the Tekram 690CD, use a single set
>  	  of I/O ports at 0x1f0 to control up to four drives, instead of the
>  	  customary two drives per port. Support for this can be enabled at
> -	  runtime using the "ide0=four" kernel boot parameter if you say Y
> -	  here.
> +	  runtime using the "ide_4drives.probe" kernel boot parameter if you

    Not "ide-4drives.probe?
    Looks correct otherwise.

MBR, Sergei
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