Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263208AbUKUJXM (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Nov 2004 04:23:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261947AbUKUJXM (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Nov 2004 04:23:12 -0500 Received: from witte.sonytel.be ([80.88.33.193]:47076 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262940AbUKUJXG (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Nov 2004 04:23:06 -0500 Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 10:22:33 +0100 (MET) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Jeff Garzik cc: Alan Cox , Marcelo Tosatti , "Tomita, Haruo" , Marcelo Tosatti , Linux Kernel Development , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: linux-2.4.28 released In-Reply-To: <419E0644.909@pobox.com> Message-ID: References: <20041118111235.GA26216@logos.cnet> <20041119134832.GA9552@havoc.gtf.org> <20041119135452.GA10422@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <419E0644.909@pobox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1242 Lines: 33 On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 08:48:32AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > PATA and SATA (DMA doesn't work for PATA, in split-driver configuration), > > > and there is no split-driver to worry about. > > > > > > I think there may need to be some code to prevent the IDE driver from > > > claiming the legacy ISA ports. > > > > Its called "request_resource". If you want the resource claim it. IDE will > > be a good citizen. > > That's what the quirk does. libata still needs to find out who obtained the > resource, not blindly grab it (and fail). If libata would be initialized before IDE, it could grab the resource during probing. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/