Hi, > I'm reworking the pci device list logic (we currently keep all PCI > devices in 2 lists, which isn't the nicest, we should be able to get > away with only 1 list.) > > The only bother I've found so far is the pci_get_device_reverse() > function, it's used in 2 places, IDE and the calgary driver. > > I'm curious if we really still support the ide=reverse option? It's a > config option that I don't think the distros still enable (SuSE does > not). Is this still needed these days? > > In digging, we changed this option in 2.2.x from being called > "pci=reverse" and no one else seems to miss it. > > Any thoughts? I remember vaguely that some years ago, we set up a box with four IDE disks as a RAID set. For that purpose, we added a PCI ATA100 controller so that each disk could act as a primary IDE device and we were only able to boot the system with the option ide=reverse. That box has been replaced by some other so I cannot verify it but as far as I remember it was a problem with disk numbering between BIOS, bootloader and/or kernel. Also, at that time we used lilo and I am not sure if grub would have done better. Dirk - 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
