linux-kernel - Re: No IDE drivers loaded for Toshiba Satellite 320 CDS

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Message-Id: <200804162008.27655.elendil@planet.nl>
Date:	Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:08:26 +0200
From:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
To:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
Cc:	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
Subject: Re: No IDE drivers loaded for Toshiba Satellite 320 CDS

On Wednesday 16 April 2008, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Yeah, theoretically, you're right.  The problem is that what breaks when
> things go wrong.  If you don't probe generic ports by default, harddisks
> won't be detected on some legacy systems but you can always prompt the
> user about loading the generic driver.  If you probe generic ports by
> default, when things go wrong, you break modern machines in an
> unrecoverable (w/o reset) way.  I'd rather choose bothering the user on
> legacy machines.

The problem here is determining whether a machine is "legacy" or not.
So far in this discussion I've seen no suggestions how to do that (except 
maybe for my test whether /sys/bus/isa is present), which would mean asking 
_all_ users, and that's a damned ugly option.
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