From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] fastboot: use a DMI match table to set defaults for port-disable
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:37:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080812043718.038d3e56@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080812091009.05a32b39@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:10:09 +0100
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > if you solder the board... well you can add a tiny kernel patch or
> > change the dmi ;)
>
> Lots of people have them modified and you can even buy them
> pre-modded as an end user. It needs to be simpler than hacking your
> kernel. In fact this argues that the port disables should be handled
> by user space not by the kernel ?
which is a commandline option then; because once userspace runs you've
already paid the price in terms of boottime otherwise and would make
the idea entirely moot.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-12 11:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-11 22:35 [patch 0/2] fastboot: allow skipping probing of known-unused ports in libata Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-11 22:36 ` [patch 1/2] fastboot: Add a module parameter to skip probing of specific ports Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-12 7:39 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-12 11:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-12 12:00 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-12 14:02 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-12 14:21 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-11 22:37 ` [patch 2/2] fastboot: use a DMI match table to set defaults for port-disable Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-12 1:09 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-08-12 5:04 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-12 8:10 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-12 11:37 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2008-08-12 11:58 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-20 22:46 ` Bjorn Helgaas
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