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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:12:35 +0900 From: Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com> To: Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl> 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 Frans Pop wrote: > 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. Asking when no harddisk is detected w/ the option to choose it explicitly should do for most cases. No? -- tejun -- 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/
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