On Friday 12 September 2008, Tejun Heo wrote: > Enabling IDE generic may prevent ATA controllers located on legacy > ports from being attached to more proper driver or can prevent other > controllers which share the IRQ from working. Note it in the help > message. > > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> applied > --- > drivers/ide/Kconfig | 14 ++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/ide/Kconfig b/drivers/ide/Kconfig > index fc735ab..5e5b2d3 100644 > --- a/drivers/ide/Kconfig > +++ b/drivers/ide/Kconfig > @@ -292,6 +292,20 @@ config IDE_GENERIC > tristate "generic/default IDE chipset support" > depends on ALPHA || X86 || IA64 || M32R || MIPS > help > + This is the generic IDE driver. This driver attaches to the > + fixed legacy ports (e.g. on PCs 0x1f0/0x170, 0x1e8/0x168 and > + so on). Please note that if this driver is built into the > + kernel or loaded before other ATA (IDE or libata) drivers > + and the controller is located at legacy ports, this driver > + will grab those ports and thus can prevent the controller > + specific driver from attaching. s/will grab/may grab/ since Borislav has fixed PCI-case for .28 -- 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
