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Message-ID: <20080417002437.559ec164@the-village.bc.nu>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:24:37 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>,
Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>,
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
> 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.
Libata pata_legacy handles this itself for all known cases using the
ruleset
IF any PCI device -> no PATA legacy scans beyond IDE0/IDE1
IF any PCI IDE in legacy compat mode -> No pata_legacy bind to that port
IF CS55x0 or MPIIX -> read the chipset magic [these are the obscure 'not
PCI but not ISA' specials]
Alan
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