Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:48:32 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: No IDE drivers loaded for Toshiba Satellite 320 CDS |
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Lennart Sorensen wrote: > After all I thought the whole point of all the ports listed in > /proc/ioports was to indicate which io ports were currently reserved by > which driver so that no other driver could try to access them. If it > doesn't in fact work that way then it probably should.
It does work most of the time and it's probably safe to load legacy / generic drivers on most configurations. It's just that we're talking about 15+ years of gap between ISA and PCI-e and there could be some exceptions and we might need to tread a bit more carefully. To me, it sounds reasonable.
Thanks.
-- tejun
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