Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:56:05 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] libata: fix broken Kconfig setup |
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Sergey Vlasov wrote: > The IDE=y part seems to be incorrect - quirk_intel_ide_combined() is > needed even with modular IDE. Without this quirk you will get one of > these configurations depending on the module load order: > > 1) ata_piix loads first - it grabs the whole controller, including the > PATA port; the IDE module loaded later finds nothing. > > 2) IDE modules are loaded first - without the quirk IDE drivers will > grab the whole controller, including the SATA part. > > The binding you get with builtin IDE (ata_piix/ahci for SATA, generic > IDE driver for PATA) would be impossible to get with modular IDE without > the quirk, which does not seem to be good...
This is a reasonable point, but the rare person who runs modular IDE on these PATA/SATA combined mode beasts can certainly tell the IDE driver to not probe certain ports.
Jeff
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