Subject: Re: DMA in PCI chipset -- module vs. compiled-in
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 15:25:34 -0500
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On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 19:49 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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.

OK.  But wasn't this a problem in previous kernels?

Lee

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