Re: Is the change to IDE probing really necessary?

[Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

O> On a machine requiring probing of the legacy ports, the suggested
> probe_mask of 0x3f results in other devices being registered as IDE
> devices. Suggest to the user they use 0x3 which is the old value of
> probe_mask prior to commit 20df429dd6671804999493baf2952f82582869fa.

NAK

This makes no sense.

0x3F means probe them all.

0x03 means only peer at primary/secondary.

If you don't want them probed, don't pass arguments asking for them to be
probed!

"how is a distro install using modules meant to be fixed up?"

If the distribution supports non PCI bus boxes then pass a mask of 0x3F
on non PCI boxes. If the distribution is for PCI systems then leave the
mask alone.

If you want it to just work automatically use pata_legacy instead as that
automatically flips between probing ISA tertiary devices and leaving
things well alone according to the presence of PCI bus.

Alan