> I don't really think it would be dangerous to grab intel IDE > controllers with ata_generic. Again, that's what windows would do. > And for sysfs unbind case, if the user specifically unbinds the > controller from ata_piix, what is broken? If the user changes the PCI id list what happens ? > > > The extreme example would be if you have ata_generic binding to all > > devices and you forgot to compile in RZ1000 support. On the relevant > > board that just ate your file system. > > > > So the grab it all approach was dismissed. > > For RZ1000, sure, but we're talking about only intel IDEs here. I don't know. I do know what the Intel folks have told me about detecting them. > > 0xF8 is non zero on all later Intel ATA PCI chipsets > > 0x40 is writable on all earlier Intel ATA PCI chipsets, and zero + non > > writable on the IDE-R devices. > > Maybe it's okay now but who's gonna remember what's going on there > after five years and nobody guarantees the above would continue to Add a comment ? > hold in the future. It did occur to me to check this would be true in the future. Either way - an id table would go out of date more often. 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
