Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:54:53 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Is the change to IDE probing really necessary? |
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O> On a machine requiring probing of the legacy ports, the suggested > probe_mask of 0x3f results in other devices being registered as IDE > devices. Suggest to the user they use 0x3 which is the old value of > probe_mask prior to commit 20df429dd6671804999493baf2952f82582869fa.
NAK
This makes no sense.
0x3F means probe them all.
0x03 means only peer at primary/secondary.
If you don't want them probed, don't pass arguments asking for them to be probed!
"how is a distro install using modules meant to be fixed up?"
If the distribution supports non PCI bus boxes then pass a mask of 0x3F on non PCI boxes. If the distribution is for PCI systems then leave the mask alone.
If you want it to just work automatically use pata_legacy instead as that automatically flips between probing ISA tertiary devices and leaving things well alone according to the presence of PCI bus.
Alan
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