Re: [PATCH] Selective attach for ide-scsi

[Mikael Pettersson]

Willem Riede writes:
 > Today, if you boot 2.6.x with hdd=ide-scsi, ide-scsi will attach to
 > all your Atapi drives, not just hdd, unless you explicitely specified
 > another driver for those.
 > 
 > Given that we don't want people to use ide-scsi for cdroms and cd-writers,
 > that behavior is IMHO suboptimal.
 > 
 > The patch below makes ide-scsi attach ONLY to those drives that you tell
 > it to. So if you want it to handle hdb and hdd, but not hdc, you boot
 > with hdb=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi.

The patch I posted, which you apparently didn't like, doesn't
require the use of boot-only options: it instead adds a module_param
to ide-scsi which allows for greater flexibility.

Personally I never liked that butt-ugly hdX=ide-scsi hack.

/Mikael
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