On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 13:35, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > Hmm, what's the intent of the change? IDE, or more properly ATA, was > originally an ISA-only device and is still only available as ISA-style > implementations, AFAIK. I'd prefer it to be available only if any of > CONFIG_ISA, CONFIG_EISA, CONFIG_PCI (unsure about CONFIG_MCA) is set. We support ATA devices attached to arbitary busses. The newest ATA code supports arbitary mmio/pio addressing mechanisms. You don't need ISA or an ISA like bus.