linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 45/86] pata_legacy: do not probe extra ports automatically if PCI is not present

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Message-ID: <20091125173215.539b5630@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:32:15 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 45/86] pata_legacy: do not probe extra ports
 automatically if PCI is not present

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:07:40 +0100
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com> wrote:

> From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] pata_legacy: do not probe extra ports automatically if PCI is not present
> 
> It can be problematic if there are other ISA/VLB devices using
> those ports.

NAK. You made a rather peculiar set of changes in the IDE layer but the
PCI handling in pata_legacy includes knowledge of the various half-pci
devices and on a non PCI system 0x1E8/0x168 are reserved for extra IDE.

We've had no complaints at all, ever about this.

> This is a forward port of bugfix from IDE ide-generic host driver.

Of a bug.

Alan
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