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| author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2008-04-18 00:46:20 +0200 |
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| committer | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> | 2008-04-18 00:46:20 +0200 |
| commit | a594eeb1a1d320981fccc29584b6f21fcebd765f (patch) | |
| tree | 55f76c9a9b99c4dd98a5ff6034d7150de7057085 /drivers/ide/Kconfig | |
| parent | 4b119e21d0c66c22e8ca03df05d9de623d0eb50f (diff) | |
IDE: remove ide=reverse IDE core
This option is obsolete and can be removed safely.
It allows us to remove the pci_get_device_reverse() function from the
PCI core.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/ide/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/ide/Kconfig | 9 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ide/Kconfig b/drivers/ide/Kconfig index eed6d8e1b5c7..ac5875783430 100644 --- a/drivers/ide/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/ide/Kconfig @@ -416,12 +416,6 @@ config BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD This can improve the usability of some boot managers such as lilo when booting from a drive on an off-board controller. - If you say Y here, and you actually want to reverse the device scan - order as explained above, you also need to issue the kernel command - line option "ide=reverse". (Try "man bootparam" or see the - documentation of your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to - pass options to the kernel at boot time.) - Note that, if you do this, the order of the hd* devices will be rearranged which may require modification of fstab and other files. @@ -615,8 +609,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_HPT366 reference to device 0x80. The other solution is to say Y to "Boot off-board chipsets first support" (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD) unless your mother board has the chipset natively mounted. Regardless one - should use the fore mentioned option and call at LILO or include - "ide=reverse" in LILO's append-line. + should use the fore mentioned option and call at LILO. This driver requires dynamic tuning of the chipset during the ide-probe at boot. It is reported to support DVD II drives, by the |