Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932329AbWBFTrj (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 14:47:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932330AbWBFTre (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 14:47:34 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:31973 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932329AbWBFTrc (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 14:47:32 -0500 Subject: Re: DMA in PCI chipset -- module vs. compiled-in From: Alan Cox To: Lee Revell Cc: William Park , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1139200372.2791.208.camel@mindpipe> References: <20060206034312.GA2962@node1.opengeometry.net> <1139200372.2791.208.camel@mindpipe> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 19:49:25 +0000 Message-Id: <1139255365.10437.49.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 678 Lines: 18 On Sul, 2006-02-05 at 23:32 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > Generic and chipset specific support are not complementary, they are > mutually exclusive. Having generic PCI IDE support enabled will prevent > the chipset specific support from working properly. Untrue. The PCI generic driver by default grabs only hardware with PCI IDS it knows can be driven generically. That list purposefully has no overlaps with chipset drivers. Alan - 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/