Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751500AbVJRU4Q (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:56:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751503AbVJRU4Q (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:56:16 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:38042 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751500AbVJRU4O (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:56:14 -0400 Message-ID: <43556165.1080307@pobox.com> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:56:05 -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: Sergey Vlasov CC: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davej@redhat.com, Jesse Barnes , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: fix broken Kconfig setup References: <20051017044606.GA1266@havoc.gtf.org> <4353C42A.3000005@pobox.com> <4353CF7E.1090404@pobox.com> <4353D905.3080400@pobox.com> <20051018151526.5f4deef6.vsu@altlinux.ru> In-Reply-To: <20051018151526.5f4deef6.vsu@altlinux.ru> 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: 1107 Lines: 27 Sergey Vlasov wrote: > The IDE=y part seems to be incorrect - quirk_intel_ide_combined() is > needed even with modular IDE. Without this quirk you will get one of > these configurations depending on the module load order: > > 1) ata_piix loads first - it grabs the whole controller, including the > PATA port; the IDE module loaded later finds nothing. > > 2) IDE modules are loaded first - without the quirk IDE drivers will > grab the whole controller, including the SATA part. > > The binding you get with builtin IDE (ata_piix/ahci for SATA, generic > IDE driver for PATA) would be impossible to get with modular IDE without > the quirk, which does not seem to be good... This is a reasonable point, but the rare person who runs modular IDE on these PATA/SATA combined mode beasts can certainly tell the IDE driver to not probe certain ports. 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/