On Wednesday 16 April 2008, Tejun Heo wrote: > Yeah, theoretically, you're right. The problem is that what breaks when > things go wrong. If you don't probe generic ports by default, harddisks > won't be detected on some legacy systems but you can always prompt the > user about loading the generic driver. If you probe generic ports by > default, when things go wrong, you break modern machines in an > unrecoverable (w/o reset) way. I'd rather choose bothering the user on > legacy machines. The problem here is determining whether a machine is "legacy" or not. So far in this discussion I've seen no suggestions how to do that (except maybe for my test whether /sys/bus/isa is present), which would mean asking _all_ users, and that's a damned ugly option. -- 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
