From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
To: wrlk@riede.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Selective attach for ide-scsi
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 09:24:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16423.17315.777835.128816@alkaid.it.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040208224248.GA28026@serve.riede.org>
Willem Riede writes:
> Today, if you boot 2.6.x with hdd=ide-scsi, ide-scsi will attach to
> all your Atapi drives, not just hdd, unless you explicitely specified
> another driver for those.
>
> Given that we don't want people to use ide-scsi for cdroms and cd-writers,
> that behavior is IMHO suboptimal.
>
> The patch below makes ide-scsi attach ONLY to those drives that you tell
> it to. So if you want it to handle hdb and hdd, but not hdc, you boot
> with hdb=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi.
The patch I posted, which you apparently didn't like, doesn't
require the use of boot-only options: it instead adds a module_param
to ide-scsi which allows for greater flexibility.
Personally I never liked that butt-ugly hdX=ide-scsi hack.
/Mikael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-09 8:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-08 22:42 Willem Riede
2004-02-09 8:24 ` Mikael Pettersson [this message]
2004-02-10 0:02 ` Willem Riede
2004-02-11 20:11 ` Patrick Mansfield
2004-02-14 22:06 ` Willem Riede
2004-02-14 22:54 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-02-14 23:03 ` Willem Riede
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