Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:21:56 +0100 | Subject | Re: Is the change to IDE probing really necessary? | From | Borislav Petkov <> |
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> > And the probing _is_ done when loaded as a module so the problem is > > not with the mask - in your case the probing will work just fine as > > you need ide0 and ide1, AFAICT. > > Out of curiousity, I loaded ide-generic as a module and tried the suggested > probe_mask. It loads after e100 which is built in and then has a crap attack > as it tries to register IO regions which are already registered, triggers > sysfs warnings for creating duplicate files and then continues along to > a state where networking doesn't work anyway. That suggestion of 0x3f may > still catch someone.
Yep, the message could be misleading wrt to the probe_mask. Is something along the lines of
"please adjust the probe_mask module parameter for probing the rest of the legacy ISA IDE ports"
more informative? Now it implies that the primary/secondary ports are probed by default.
However, you still have to set it to something > 0x3 if you want to probe ide[2-5]. Also, there's still the option of CONFIG_BLK_DEV_GENERIC which adds support for otherwise unsupported IDE PCI controllers.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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