Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:12:35 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: No IDE drivers loaded for Toshiba Satellite 320 CDS |
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Frans Pop wrote: > 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.
Asking when no harddisk is detected w/ the option to choose it explicitly should do for most cases. No?
-- tejun
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