Hello, again. On 08/19/2010 01:22 PM, Tejun Heo wrote: > On 08/19/2010 12:09 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >>> what if ata_piix is already compiled in or already loaded but ahci is >>> not for an ich6 controller? We have priorities in the drivers, if the >>> user/admin wants to use the lower priority ones that much, he/she >>> shall. This isn't an issue. There's no way to hotplug intel IDEs >>> anyway. >> >> The PIIX4 in the IBM docking stations is hot plug - and its why I also >> have to check 0x40 and write it if zero. So the case exists. > > I see. Most of the problems are solved by driver priority but yeah > that's an actual corner case. Driver priority doesn't work unless all > the matching drivers are loaded by the time driver matching starts, so > the same problem could happen with pata_acpi depending on probe order > during normal boot, so pata_acpi should be blacklisted by default. It seems priority thing can't handle this at all. So, to the original patch, Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks. -- tejun -- 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
