Alan wrote: >>>> NAK, this is totally wrong >> Eek.. You actually said this is/was documented and relied upon all over. >> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/13184/focus=14486 > > What I said (well tried to say since it was apparently vague and caused > confusion) was relied upon was the hardware being in PIO0 during probe > (because we don't call the PIO setup methods during probe/reset) and that > we decide which modes both devices are using *before* we set either of > them (which the current code appears to do correctly). This is because > the device may need to know both to apply limits - such as merging > address setup time. I see. >>> I'm curious what the motivation of this patch was? >> Hope my intentions are explained. > > Yep. I think it's a simple case of confusion about the meaning of an > email. Okay, then. We can just ignore this whole thread. Thanks for clarifying. -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: 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