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Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 14:03:59 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: driverfs support for motherboard devices
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Hi!

> If the IDE controller doesn't know it's parent, create an 'ide' bus as a 
> child of the root and put ide devices under it. If there are multiple 
> controllers or channels, represent them accordingly. 

Uh?

I'd expect legacy bus (it fits description of legacy device, right?)
and then ide bus hanging from the IDE controller on legacy bus, then
disks on the ide bus...
								Pavel
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