From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755442AbYDXDsv (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:48:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753736AbYDXDsn (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:48:43 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.231]:6953 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753724AbYDXDsm (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:48:42 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=CmleeXFVOFUh5jLRtA1yL4UPcELMJOgyYJ61bhhYWqMdU2uZYZWq6uVS7QtpZPVrwa2NucrpzI2KYfS8yW9Fcp032MqFEe4WbOAO4/HC4I0trJCyseBkR7VainCLwpXu2c87DN1ZwC/lHRAsMwtvVqynAWxHvYOcRC8FBS8NBHQ= Message-ID: <48100310.3060300@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:48:32 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lennart Sorensen CC: Frans Pop , Alan Cox , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: No IDE drivers loaded for Toshiba Satellite 320 CDS References: <200804021524.27222.elendil@planet.nl> <20080415144748.GO7385@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <48053AD1.8010007@gmail.com> <200804162008.27655.elendil@planet.nl> <480679D3.7030705@gmail.com> <20080417140506.GC7385@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <20080417140506.GC7385@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Lennart Sorensen wrote: > After all I thought the whole point of all the ports listed in > /proc/ioports was to indicate which io ports were currently reserved by > which driver so that no other driver could try to access them. If it > doesn't in fact work that way then it probably should. It does work most of the time and it's probably safe to load legacy / generic drivers on most configurations. It's just that we're talking about 15+ years of gap between ISA and PCI-e and there could be some exceptions and we might need to tread a bit more carefully. To me, it sounds reasonable. Thanks. -- tejun