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authorPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2008-06-16 14:53:25 +1000
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2008-06-16 14:53:25 +1000
commita9653cf540d407fb75deb3db65a1be6c81d53ee0 (patch)
tree075fb79746f1d74443c9a9062e73c26a6266b05c /drivers/ide/ide-generic.c
parente80ac32767d0f781ac195c472d500a7451d3729a (diff)
parent066519068ad2fbe98c7f45552b1f592903a9c8c8 (diff)
Merge branch 'linux-2.6' into merge
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/ide/ide-generic.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/ide/ide-generic.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-generic.c b/drivers/ide/ide-generic.c
index 9134488ac04..2d92214096a 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-generic.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-generic.c
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@
#define DRV_NAME "ide_generic"
+static int probe_mask = 0x03;
+module_param(probe_mask, int, 0);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(probe_mask, "probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports");
+
static ssize_t store_add(struct class *cls, const char *buf, size_t n)
{
ide_hwif_t *hwif;
@@ -89,6 +93,9 @@ static int __init ide_generic_init(void)
u8 idx[MAX_HWIFS];
int i;
+ printk(KERN_INFO DRV_NAME ": please use \"probe_mask=0x3f\" module "
+ "parameter for probing all legacy ISA IDE ports\n");
+
for (i = 0; i < MAX_HWIFS; i++) {
ide_hwif_t *hwif;
unsigned long io_addr = ide_default_io_base(i);
@@ -96,7 +103,7 @@ static int __init ide_generic_init(void)
idx[i] = 0xff;
- if (io_addr) {
+ if ((probe_mask & (1 << i)) && io_addr) {
if (!request_region(io_addr, 8, DRV_NAME)) {
printk(KERN_ERR "%s: I/O resource 0x%lX-0x%lX "
"not free.\n",