From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Conke Hu <conke.hu@amd.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add IDE mode support for SB600 SATA
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:12:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1164287566.31358.786.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061123112251.7976994c@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 11:22 +0000, Alan wrote:
> > is this really the right thing? You're overriding a user chosen
> > configuration here.... while that might be justifiable.. it's probably a
> > good idea to at least provide a safety-valve for this one. The user
> > might have made that selection very deliberately.
>
> Its what we do for other similar cases and I think its the right thing to
> do in this situation. One reason for this is that with multi-boot boxes
> you have to set the BIOS option to the dumbest one unless the smart OS's
> reconfigure the device.
while I can appreciate that.. it does assume things like SMM not
assuming things about it; and on resume.. has to happen as again/well :)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-23 13:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-23 4:20 Conke Hu
2006-11-23 8:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-23 11:22 ` Alan
2006-11-23 13:12 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-11-23 11:21 ` Alan
2006-11-24 6:01 ` Tejun Heo
2006-11-24 7:05 ` Tejun Heo
2006-11-24 11:13 ` Alan
2006-11-25 1:43 ` Tejun Heo
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-11-24 5:21 Conke Hu
2006-11-23 16:35 Luugi Marsan
2006-11-23 16:45 ` Alan
2006-11-23 10:16 Conke Hu
2006-11-23 9:50 Conke Hu
2006-11-23 4:24 Conke Hu
2006-11-23 4:04 Conke Hu
2006-11-22 22:23 Conke Hu
2006-11-23 2:26 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-23 11:13 ` Alan
2006-11-23 2:31 ` Andrew Morton
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