On Thu, 11 May 2006 09:11:40 +0100 Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 11:16:08AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > > > I'm not very sure but it might be historical. ahci got implemented > > after ata_piix and in the meantime ata_piix must have handled all it > > could. Can you verify whether modifying the code to return -ENODEV work > > for your machine? If so, that could be the correct solution but I'm a > > bit worried because it could change probing order or fail to enable > > devices it used to. Maybe we need a hack to return -ENODEV iff ahci is > > there to handle the device. > > I can verify that just loading ahci before ata_piix is successful, and > udev will load both of them since the PCI IDs match. So just having > ata_piix refuse to bind would solve the problem. Unfortunately I can't > see a way of doing this only if ahci is present if they're modular... Does the 'combined_mode' kernel parameter help any? --- ~Randy - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html