Alan,
Since this is no more than a chipset that is identical to piix.c
Why is it setup as a loadable object?
obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IT8172) += it8172.o
and not like below?
ide-obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IT8172) += it8172.o
Andre Hedrick
Linux ATA Development
ASL Kernel Development
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