Re: [git patches] IDE updates (part 1)

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>]

On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

> > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_SWARM disabled by default -- that should probably be 
> > changed; I'll cook a patch).  I guess it is not possible to make everyone 
> > happy at once though, so please do not treat it as a hard objection. :-)
> 
> Hmm, it also seems that CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC=y may be removed now because
> IDE SWARM host driver does the probing itself?

 I do not think it should have relied on it in any way or otherwise 
"select" should have been used.  I recall confusion around this driver and 
even recently some breakage happened as a result of some fiddling with 
include/asm-mips/mach-generic/ide.h and the fact this platform is 
legacy-free -- there is nothing decoding subtractively on the PCI bus (no 
south bridge of any kind) and blind pokes at presumed ISA addresses result 
in bus error exceptions.

 I'll have a look at it in due course.

  Maciej
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