Hi, On Thursday 26 July 2007, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > P.C.Chan wrote: > > The last straw which breaks the SATA support is > > "CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC=y". Please see enclosed config files. > > > > The description being: > > > > *generic/default IDE chipset support (IDE_GENERIC) > > > > If unsure, say Y.* > > > > The linux distributions would have a hard time in preparing a kernel for > > general use, when CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC and libata are somewhat mutally > > exclusive for Intel chipset. > > Distros usually know better and don't build in the generic driver. It's > built as a module and used only as the last resort. > > > I guess it should at least say: > > > > *If unsure, say N.* > > > > It did no harm prior to 2.6.22 though. > > That didn't to any harm probably because ATA quirk code reserved the > area for libata during PCI initialization, so the generic driver > couldn't grab the port before libata. Now that the quirk is gone, the > generic driver grabs the first IDE channel before libata and you don't > have dma for your drive. > > cc'ing Bartlomiej. Bartlomiej, I think it would be better not to > default to Y for CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC. For most cases, it just causes > misconfiguration and confusion these days. Fully agreed, care to submit a patch? Thanks, Bart - 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
