> 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. Libata pata_legacy handles this itself for all known cases using the ruleset IF any PCI device -> no PATA legacy scans beyond IDE0/IDE1 IF any PCI IDE in legacy compat mode -> No pata_legacy bind to that port IF CS55x0 or MPIIX -> read the chipset magic [these are the obscure 'not PCI but not ISA' specials] Alan -- 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
