Re: [PATCH 03/12] ide: add ide-4drives host driver

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Date: Tue Feb 19 2008 - 17:04:37 EST


On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>
> > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_4DRIVES deserves its own host driver:
>
> > * Add drivers/ide/legacy/ide-4drives.c and move "4drives" support there.
>
> > * Add ide-4drives.o in the link order after all other legacy host
> > drivers enabled by "ide0=" options (they all are mutually exclusive).
>
> > * Make ide-4drives host driver probe itself for IDE devices instead of
> > indirectly depending on ide_generic host driver.
>
> > * Add "probe" module parameter to ide-4drives and update documentation.
>
> > Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> > Index: b/drivers/ide/Kconfig
> > ===================================================================
> > --- a/drivers/ide/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/ide/Kconfig
> > @@ -1042,8 +1042,8 @@ config BLK_DEV_4DRIVES
> > Certain older chipsets, including the Tekram 690CD, use a single set
> > of I/O ports at 0x1f0 to control up to four drives, instead of the
> > customary two drives per port. Support for this can be enabled at
> > - runtime using the "ide0=four" kernel boot parameter if you say Y
> > - here.
> > + runtime using the "ide_4drives.probe" kernel boot parameter if you
>
> Not "ide-4drives.probe?
> Looks correct otherwise.

I believe that both versions are correct but I fixed this in 'take 3' to
be on the safe side.

Thanks,
Bart
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