On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Atsushi Nemoto wrote: > The pci_get_class() failure was happened only if ide_probe_legacy() was > called too early. That can happen if you specified some IDE boot > options, such as "idebus=" option. > > So if you do not add any ide boot option, there should be no problem. > > If you meant "ide_probe_legacy() has been broken with ide boot options > for long years", I agree. You mean the point ide_probe_legacy() is called at during bootstrap depends on whether some IDE boot options have been specified or not? Well, that is an... interesting approach indeed. > And my recent patch is not to solve this problem. Just avoid adding > legacy ide0/ide1 unconditionally in normal usage. Of course and it makes perfect sense then. Thanks for your effort. Maciej
