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SubjectRe: [PATCH] libata: fix broken Kconfig setup
Jesse Barnes wrote:
> It does, since it prevents one of the ports from being bound by the
> legacy IDE driver. But the whole thing is rather hackish to begin with,
> and I prefer this hack to the existing code (in fact, Andrew already
> queued up a patch from me in -mm that looks just like yours).
>
> Ultimately, when libata gets ATAPI support, I think we just have to
> declare libata and legacy IDE to be incompatible for combined mode
> devices and remove the quirk. Then whichever driver loads first will
> get the whole device, as it should.

I would love to remove the quirk completely!

Unfortunately combined mode is a runtime BIOS configuration, and there
is also the lockup issue I mentioned in another email.

Jeff


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