From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261687AbTJ0Muo (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 07:50:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261696AbTJ0Muo (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 07:50:44 -0500 Received: from totor.bouissou.net ([82.67.27.165]:52875 "EHLO totor.bouissou.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261687AbTJ0Mun (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 07:50:43 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" From: Michel Bouissou Organization: Completely disorganized To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: Patch for Promise PDC20276 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 13:50:41 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 Cc: abrutschy@xylon.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200310271009.13054@totor.bouissou.net> <200310271049.15348@totor.bouissou.net> <200310271102.36476.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> In-Reply-To: <200310271102.36476.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200310271350.41631@totor.bouissou.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Le Lundi 27 Octobre 2003 11:02, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz a écrit : > > > Uh. I may have misunderstood, but I understood that using this option > > would activate the controller's hardware RAID feature, which I don't > > want. > > Quite opposite, it makes Linux use controller even if it was marked by BIOS > as disabled (for RAID purposes). So the Configure.help help text associated with this option is definitely unclear (I would say: misleading) because it barely says (in kernel 2.4.22): <<<<< Special FastTrak Feature CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE For FastTrak enable overriding BIOS. >>>>> And I understood this as meaning <> Hmmmm... -- Michel Bouissou OpenPGP ID 0xDDE8AC6E