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Subject: Re: IDE probing IDE_MAX_HWIFS
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On Sul, 2005-06-26 at 19:08, Nick Warne wrote:
> Heh.  Yes I know now, but I was thinking along the lines that if someone knows 
> how many IDE interfaces they have it could be specified exactly - I 
> didn't/don't see why it is considered an option for config_embedded only to 
> be allowed to do that.

Its a trade off. If you allow every configuration option kernel
configuration begins to resemble an inquisition.