#include <hallo.h> * Jurij Smakov [Wed, Mar 08 2006, 10:35:38PM]: > the native IDE drivers set this flag during their initialization (via82cxxx > does it through the chain of calls ide_setup_pci_device() -> > probe_hwif_init_with_fixup() -> hwif_init()). So, if ide-generic is loaded > last, it will pick up only the interfaces, which have not been claimed by > any native drivers, which is the desired result. Looking at the code I > cannot see how the native drivers can depend in any way on the ide-generic > being loaded before them.
I suggest going a bit further and _not_ loading ide-generic if a specific driver has been loaded successfully and found some devices. Reason? At least on my laptop ide-generic takes too long, about 30 seconds, apparently doing probing for devices that do not exist. I can disable it with kernel commandline parameters but it still sucks. And I really doubt that there are that many users out there that have their root filesystem on a disk attached with a legacy ISA controller when they have a much faster PCI IDE interface. And PCI interfaces have been common since... 1995 or so? (at least in the x86 world) Eduard. -- "After watching my newly-retired dad spend two weeks learning how to make a new folder, it became obvious that "intuitive" mostly means "what the writer or speaker of intuitive likes". - Bruce Ediger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], on X the intuitiveness of a Mac interface -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
