Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:32:15 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 45/86] pata_legacy: do not probe extra ports automatically if PCI is not present |
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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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