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SubjectRe: [PATCH] IDE: don't offer IDE_GENERIC on ia64
On 8/11/05, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 02:24:43PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > IA64 boxes only have PCI IDE devices, so there's no need to blindly poke
> > around in I/O port space. Poking at things that don't exist causes MCAs
> > on HP ia64 systems.
>
> Maybe it should instead depend on those systems where it is available.
> Anything but X86?

Don't forget that arch specific drivers use IDE_GENERIC *indirectly*
to probe for devices.

Bartlomiej
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