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Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: >>Since this apparently didn't get through to the mailing list >>I'm sending it again. This time compressed. >> > > Pity - noncompressed is better, now only people with too much time > will look at it. > > There is something else one might do. > In ide-geometry.c there is the routine probe_cmos_for_drives(). > Long ago I already wrote "Eventually the entire routine below > should be removed". I think this is the proper time to do this. > > This probe is done only for the i386 architecture, and only > for the first two IDE disks, and only influences their geometry. > It has been a pain - for example, it gives the first two disks > a different geometry from the others, which is inconvenient > when one want a RAID of identical disks. > Basically I lend toward your arguments. I think too that a bios based detection is already right and then we have now the ide-skip kernel parameter which is allowing to exclude a drive from handling by the linux ide driver anyway. And I think that 2.4.x and above don't run on i386's anymore anyway. - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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