Before the dedicated Toshiba Piccolo driver was written by Alan Cox, these chips were handled by the generic driver; in case the dedicated driver isn't enabled, the generic driver keeps claiming these chips -- add a comment clarifying that... Suggested-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@xxxxxx> --- Changes in version 2: - new patch. drivers/ata/ata_generic.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/ata/ata_generic.c b/drivers/ata/ata_generic.c index 2f57ec00ab82..d6c210510c36 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/ata_generic.c +++ b/drivers/ata/ata_generic.c @@ -220,6 +220,11 @@ static struct pci_device_id ata_generic[] = { { PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_OPTI, PCI_DEVICE_ID_OPTI_82C558), }, { PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_CENATEK,PCI_DEVICE_ID_CENATEK_IDE), .driver_data = ATA_GEN_FORCE_DMA }, + /* + * Before the dedicated Toshiba Piccolo driver was written, + * these chips were handled by the generic driver; keep the + * old behavior if the dedicated driver is not enabled... + */ #if !defined(CONFIG_PATA_TOSHIBA) && !defined(CONFIG_PATA_TOSHIBA_MODULE) { PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_TOSHIBA,PCI_DEVICE_ID_TOSHIBA_PICCOLO_1), }, { PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_TOSHIBA,PCI_DEVICE_ID_TOSHIBA_PICCOLO_2), }, -- 2.47.0