> Tejun is just repeating what I've been saying: you don't need a > separate driver, call out from sata_nv or whereever instead. You do need a separate driver because you've got no guarantee that the PATA chip you are driving has a non-ACPI driver of any kind. For the Nvidia PATA Tejun may be right, although it'll be very risky since you've no idea what the ACPI methods decide to reconfigure the moment you start touching the chip via ACPI and directly. 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
