Hello. Alan Cox wrote:
Various old IDE drivers go mapping ROM devices for no apparent reason and without using the ROM mapping API we now have. They don't actually use
Hm, do you mean the sysfs based aproach? I've tried that and somehow it failed to work for me -- that's because I deferred removing this stuff from the drivers.
the ROM they map and the new libata drivers are happy without it being
I guess ROMs used to be mappen just for dumping BIOSes...
mapped so rather than port them lets just junk it for the next -rc1.
I'd agree to the patch -- the drivers were mapping ROMs in a bad way, often using the default addresses.
MBR, Sergei - 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
