Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750787AbWHOXLL (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:11:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750800AbWHOXLL (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:11:11 -0400 Received: from 125.14.cm.sunflower.com ([24.124.14.125]:55531 "EHLO mail.atipa.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750787AbWHOXLK (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:11:10 -0400 Message-ID: <44E25496.20705@atipa.com> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:11:18 -0500 From: Roger Heflin User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060313) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Hancock CC: linux-kernel , Alan Cox Subject: Re: What determines which interrupts are shared under Linux? References: <44E252E9.40704@shaw.ca> In-Reply-To: <44E252E9.40704@shaw.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Aug 2006 23:11:30.0234 (UTC) FILETIME=[245371A0:01C6C0C0] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1327 Lines: 28 Robert Hancock wrote: > Roger Heflin wrote: >> On the specific kernel that I have I appear to have both IDE and >> sata_nv drivers, is there a way to force things to use sata_nv/libata >> rather than the older ide driver for the NVIDIA sata controller? > > Are you saying that drivers/ide is binding to the NVIDIA SATA > controller? That seems odd, at least in the Fedora Core 5 kernel > configuration, drivers/ide would never try to bind to the SATA > controllers for me, only sata_nv would. Maybe you have some > configuration option turned on to make drivers/ide grab anything that > looks like an IDE controller, which probably shouldn't be turned on. > This kernel is a bit weird, ide is build into the kernel so it gets first shot at anything it can manage. I am not sure why the choices were made to set it up the way it is setup, probably something historical. I adjusted it so that IDE is a module and setup IDE to load after sata_nv, so sata_nv is picking up the NVIDIA stuff, and it appears to be alot better behaved. Roger - 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/