Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755943Ab0AMPn6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:43:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755290Ab0AMPn5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:43:57 -0500 Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]:19229 "EHLO mga11.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755285Ab0AMPn5 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:43:57 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,268,1262592000"; d="scan'208";a="763888992" From: "Heasley, Seth" To: David Milburn , Jeff Garzik CC: Robert Hancock , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:43:53 -0800 Subject: RE: [PATCH 2.6.32.3] ahci: AHCI and RAID mode SATA patch for Intel Cougar Point DeviceIDs Thread-Topic: [PATCH 2.6.32.3] ahci: AHCI and RAID mode SATA patch for Intel Cougar Point DeviceIDs Thread-Index: AcqUYQedS37ksec2R3+DpislomiZ8QABgw8A Message-ID: References: <201001121700.18234.seth.heasley@intel.com> <4B4D4EAA.2010109@gmail.com> <4B4DAA68.60608@pobox.com> <4B4DDFD3.5050700@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4B4DDFD3.5050700@redhat.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 867 Lines: 22 >> * some of lines of Intel chips do not separate AHCI into a separate PCI >> ID rather legacy IDE interface. When an AHCI interface exists and >> AHCI/IDE share the same PCI ID, we default to using AHCI. Thus, some of >> those PCI ID matches in ahci.c's PCI table may not get caught by the >> generic PCI class match at the end of the table. >> >> * the cost carrying redundant PCI IDs seems low, harmless, and >> potentially helpful. > >It is helpful for the specific device IDs to show up in "modinfo ahci" and >modules.pcimap. > >David This is the reason I was asked to start adding the AHCI DeviceIDs here. -Seth -- 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/