Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Feb 2002 22:36:38 +0100 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.5-pre1 IDE cleanup 9 |
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 09:39:20PM +0100, G?rard Roudier wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > 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. > > Could you, please, not mix PCI probing and SCSI probing.
I think we're talking about PCI probing all the time ONLY.
> Average user does not care about PCI probing. But it does care on booting > the expected kernel image and mounting the expected partitions. > It also doesn't care of code aesthetical issue even with free software > since average user is not a kernel hacker. > Gérard.
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