linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ide-generic: handle probing of legacy io-ports v5

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Date:	Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:04:06 +0400
From:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>
To:	petkovbb@...il.com, Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ide-generic: handle probing of legacy io-ports v5

Hello.

Borislav Petkov wrote:

> From: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@...il.com>
> Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 18:46:35 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] ide-generic: handle probing of legacy io-ports v5
>
> Avoid probing the io-ports in case an IDE PCI controller is present and it
> uses the legacy iobases. If we still want to enforce the probing, we do
>
> ide_generic.probe_mask=0x3f
>
> on the kernel command line. The iobase checking code is
> adapted from drivers/ata/pata_legacy.c after converting hex
> pci ids into their corresponding macros in <linux/pci_ids.h>.
>
> Also, check only BAR0/2 resources since those are guaranteed
> by the workaround in drivers/pci/probe.c:pci_setup_device().
>
> CC: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@...il.com>

Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>

MBR, Sergei


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