Re: No IDE drivers loaded for Toshiba Satellite 320 CDS

[Tejun Heo]

Alan Cox wrote:
> > Always loading generic or ata_generic used to be safe.  It's still 
> > pretty safe but not as much as before.  Nowadays, there are good number 
>
> ata_generic is always safe unless you force it to grab every class
> device. By default it grabs only those devices we know obey the class
> interface well enough and for which we have no proper driver (usually
> because there are no documents). Ditto for ide/pci/generic.
>
> The trickier one is pata_legacy, which tries to be smart and knows about
> the known exception so *should* always be safe. The old IDE legacy driver
> lacks these smarts so in some cases will do the wrong thing even if
> loaded last.

Right, I was thinking about drivers/ide/ide-generic.c which just grabs 
every known legacy IO ports.  This actually caused rather serious 
problems on some ATI controllers under certain configurations.  :-(

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tejun
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