Re: [discuss] "ide=reverse" do we still need this?

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:54:55AM +0100, Dirk GOUDERS wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > I'm reworking the pci device list logic (we currently keep all PCI
> > devices in 2 lists, which isn't the nicest, we should be able to get
> > away with only 1 list.)
> > 
> > The only bother I've found so far is the pci_get_device_reverse()
> > function, it's used in 2 places, IDE and the calgary driver.
> > 
> > I'm curious if we really still support the ide=reverse option?  It's a
> > config option that I don't think the distros still enable (SuSE does
> > not).  Is this still needed these days?
> > 
> > In digging, we changed this option in 2.2.x from being called
> > "pci=reverse" and no one else seems to miss it.
> > 
> > Any thoughts?
> 
> I remember vaguely that some years ago, we set up a box with four IDE
> disks as a RAID set.  For that purpose, we added a PCI ATA100 controller
> so that each disk could act as a primary IDE device and we were only able
> to boot the system with the option ide=reverse.
> That box has been replaced by some other so I cannot verify it but as
> far as I remember it was a problem with disk numbering between BIOS,
> bootloader and/or kernel.  Also, at that time we used lilo and I am not
> sure if grub would have done better.

Hm, so, to summarize:
  - you needed this option many years ago to get a box to work properly
  - you don't need this today

So, if the option went away, you would not be inconvenienced?

thanks,

greg k-h