Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750960AbVJQRGy (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:06:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750959AbVJQRGy (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:06:54 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc14.comcast.net ([204.127.198.54]:21470 "EHLO rwcrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750960AbVJQRGx (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:06:53 -0400 From: Jesse Barnes To: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: fix broken Kconfig setup Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 10:06:39 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.91 Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davej@redhat.com References: <20051017044606.GA1266@havoc.gtf.org> <200510170952.34174.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> <4353D96F.90805@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <4353D96F.90805@pobox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510171006.39206.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1295 Lines: 29 On Monday, October 17, 2005 10:03 am, Jeff Garzik wrote: > 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. So sometimes the legacy IDE driver will lock up when it tries to drive both ports in a combined configuration? In that case, can't we just disable the legacy IDE driver for these chips and force the use of the libata version? Jesse - 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/