Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933603AbWKWLRi (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:17:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933614AbWKWLRi (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:17:38 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:34281 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933603AbWKWLRh (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:17:37 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:22:51 +0000 From: Alan To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Conke Hu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add IDE mode support for SB600 SATA Message-ID: <20061123112251.7976994c@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1164269159.31358.769.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> References: <1164269159.31358.769.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.8.20; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 757 Lines: 16 > is this really the right thing? You're overriding a user chosen > configuration here.... while that might be justifiable.. it's probably a > good idea to at least provide a safety-valve for this one. The user > might have made that selection very deliberately. Its what we do for other similar cases and I think its the right thing to do in this situation. One reason for this is that with multi-boot boxes you have to set the BIOS option to the dumbest one unless the smart OS's reconfigure the device. 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/