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Willem Riede writes: > Today, if you boot 2.6.x with hdd=ide-scsi, ide-scsi will attach to > all your Atapi drives, not just hdd, unless you explicitely specified > another driver for those. > > Given that we don't want people to use ide-scsi for cdroms and cd-writers, > that behavior is IMHO suboptimal. > > The patch below makes ide-scsi attach ONLY to those drives that you tell > it to. So if you want it to handle hdb and hdd, but not hdc, you boot > with hdb=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi. The patch I posted, which you apparently didn't like, doesn't require the use of boot-only options: it instead adds a module_param to ide-scsi which allows for greater flexibility. Personally I never liked that butt-ugly hdX=ide-scsi hack. /Mikael - 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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