On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:54:55AM +0100, Dirk GOUDERS wrote: > 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 That box has been replaced by some other so I cannot verify it but as 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. Hm, so, to summarize: - you needed this option many years ago to get a box to work properly - you don't need this today So, if the option went away, you would not be inconvenienced? thanks, greg k-h - 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
