Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750954AbVJQRDt (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:03:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750955AbVJQRDs (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:03:48 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:52878 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750923AbVJQRDs (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:03:48 -0400 Message-ID: <4353D96F.90805@pobox.com> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:03:43 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jesse Barnes CC: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davej@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: fix broken Kconfig setup References: <20051017044606.GA1266@havoc.gtf.org> <200510170952.34174.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> In-Reply-To: <200510170952.34174.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 985 Lines: 24 Jesse Barnes wrote: > It does, since it prevents one of the ports from being bound by the > legacy IDE driver. But the whole thing is rather hackish to begin with, > and I prefer this hack to the existing code (in fact, Andrew already > queued up a patch from me in -mm that looks just like yours). > > Ultimately, when libata gets ATAPI support, I think we just have to > declare libata and legacy IDE to be incompatible for combined mode > devices and remove the quirk. Then whichever driver loads first will > get the whole device, as it should. I would love to remove the quirk completely! Unfortunately combined mode is a runtime BIOS configuration, and there is also the lockup issue I mentioned in another email. Jeff - 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/