> Sure, the thing is that your patch doesn't mean we don't have to keep > ata_piix device table up-to-date. We would still need to be > maintaining that table whether ata_generic can detect IDE-R by itself I'm not sure I follow > or not. The device ID table in ata_piix is given, and ata_generic > picking up the rest of intel IDE's wouldn't miss anything. So, unless > IDE-R devices need some special treatment, I don't really see how the > detection code would be useful. The trend is towards AHCI so the problem goes away for the other bits. IDE-R is not ata_piix drivable, and lots of the ICH stuff really wants driving via ata_piix, so having the generic driver grab all intel stuff isn't as far as I can see going to be safe given a system may load the ata_generic module but not PIIX then meet a piix by hotplug. 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
