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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 45/86] pata_legacy: do not probe extra ports automatically if PCI is not present
    On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:07:40 +0100
    Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> wrote:

    > From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
    > Subject: [PATCH] pata_legacy: do not probe extra ports automatically if PCI is not present
    >
    > It can be problematic if there are other ISA/VLB devices using
    > those ports.

    NAK. You made a rather peculiar set of changes in the IDE layer but the
    PCI handling in pata_legacy includes knowledge of the various half-pci
    devices and on a non PCI system 0x1E8/0x168 are reserved for extra IDE.

    We've had no complaints at all, ever about this.

    > This is a forward port of bugfix from IDE ide-generic host driver.

    Of a bug.

    Alan


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