On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:57:12 +0100 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [PATCH] ide: make legacy IDE VLB modules check for the "probe" kernel params > > Legacy IDE VLB host drivers didn't check for "probe" options when compiled > as modules, which was obviously wrong as we don't want module to poke at > random I/O ports by simply loading it. Fix it by adding "probe" module param > to legacy IDE VLB host drivers and obsolete old "ide0=dtc2278", "ide0=ht6560b", > "ide0=qd65xx", "ide0=ali14xx", "ide0=umc8672" IDE driver options. No point obsoleting the old ones. By the time being obsolete turns into being anything like "gone", the hardware won't exist. It just causes questions, confusion, noise and hassle, leave the old options be and make the module options work too. Alan - 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
