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Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 09:45:16 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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To: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.5-pre1 IDE cleanup 9
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Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:16:39PM +0000, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > > I think it'd be even better if the chipset drivers did the probing
> > > themselves, and once they find the IDE device, they can register it with
> > > the IDE core. Same as all the other subsystem do this.
> >
> > Please send me your scsi subsystem then ;)
> 
> I must agree that SCSI controllers aren't doing their probing in a
> uniform and clean way even on PCI, but at least they do the probing
> themselves and don't have the mid-layer SCSI code do it for them like
> IDE.

Only 1-2 SCSI drivers do PCI probing "the right way"...  IIRC aic7xxx is
one of them.

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