Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:03:43 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] libata: fix broken Kconfig setup |
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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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