Re: PATCH: IDE generic tweak

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Wed Oct 13 2004 - 10:37:54 EST


On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 03:24:48PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> This allows the user to force ide-generic to claim any remaining
> IDE_STORAGE_CLASS devices. It isnt a good default to turn on because of
> loadable driver modules and confusion with SATA however it is very
> useful faced with a mainboard device that isn't supported any other way.
> Note that the entry has to come last - if it looks OK I'll comment that
> a bit more and update the option docs.
>
> Comments ?

nVidia and others have been pushing for a similar module for libata...
at least make sure one doesn't preclude the other.

Jeff



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