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SubjectRe: [PATCH] libata: fix broken Kconfig setup
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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