Re: [PATCH] pata_legacy: Allow disabling of legacy PATA device probes on non-PCI systems

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On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 10:03:47 -0500
tedheadster <tedheadster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 9:53 AM, One Thousand Gnomes
> <gnomes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 16:11:39 +0300
> > Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  
> >> Hello.
> >>
> >> On 11/29/2016 08:53 PM, Matthew Whitehead wrote:
> >>  
> >> > If there is no PCI bus detected in drivers/ata/pata_legacy.c, it registers all the
> >> > common legacy PATA devices. This includes I/O ports (0x1f0, 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160)
> >> > and also their associated interrupts (14,15,11,10,8,12).
> >> >
> >> > Unfortunately, on such systems those interrupt lines are at a premium because there is no
> >> > PCI alternative. This patch allows you to disable individual port/interrupt pairs by providing
> >> > a list of ports to skip allocating.  
> >
> > In what situation do you actually hit this. The probes should fail so the
> > interrupt shouldn't end up allocated.
> >  
> 
> Alan,
>   on my hardware it grabbed all those interrupts, showing up in
> /proc/interrupts very clearly.

Do you have a dmesg of the boot ?

Alan
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