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SubjectRe: No IDE drivers loaded for Toshiba Satellite 320 CDS
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On Wednesday 16 April 2008, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Yeah, theoretically, you're right. The problem is that what breaks when
> things go wrong. If you don't probe generic ports by default, harddisks
> won't be detected on some legacy systems but you can always prompt the
> user about loading the generic driver. If you probe generic ports by
> default, when things go wrong, you break modern machines in an
> unrecoverable (w/o reset) way. I'd rather choose bothering the user on
> legacy machines.

The problem here is determining whether a machine is "legacy" or not.
So far in this discussion I've seen no suggestions how to do that (except
maybe for my test whether /sys/bus/isa is present), which would mean asking
_all_ users, and that's a damned ugly option.


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