Re: [Linux 2.4.32] SATA ICH5/PIIX and Combined mode

["Paul Rolland" <rol@witbe.net>]

Hi Jeff,

> Apply all the Red Hat-specific patches that you ditched, when you
> switched to a vanilla kernel...  The patch that supported combined
> mode for you is in there.
> 

Just had a quick look at everything that contains "SATA" or ICH in the
patch list from RedHat, and there are two :
 - one concerns pci_quirks and pci_irqs,
 - one concerns ata_piix.c and libata.c

If the first one seems quite OK, the second one implies going back to
libata 0.93 and switching to the "old" ata_piix.c, as the one in the
2.4.32 kernel contains :
	if (combined) {
		...
		return ENODEV;
	}
thus clearly preventing devices from being detected when combined
more is there.

Do you really think such a big step back is required ?

Regards,
Paul

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