Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946092AbWKAFW6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Nov 2006 00:22:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946081AbWKAFW6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Nov 2006 00:22:58 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:2474 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946078AbWKAFW5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Nov 2006 00:22:57 -0500 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:22:49 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jeff Garzik cc: Conke Hu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: AHCI should try to claim all AHCI controllers In-Reply-To: <45482BA7.6070904@pobox.com> Message-ID: References: <45482BA7.6070904@pobox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 987 Lines: 23 On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > For the benefit of others, some background: we should not be -removing- any > PCI IDs due to this, because quite often the PCI class code will be RAID or > something else, yet still be drive-able with this ahci driver. Well, it might obviously be worthwhile removing the PCI ID's that actually do say that they are AHCI. Maybe that's not all of them, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's actually the majority of them.. (We had the same issue with "PCI IDE controller". Some PCI IDE controllers are clearly exactly that from a programming interface standpoint, but because they support RAID in hardware, they claim to be RAID controllers, since that is more "glamorous". Gaah ;^). Linus - 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/