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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/ide/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/ide/Kconfig | 57 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 42 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ide/Kconfig b/drivers/ide/Kconfig index a34758d2951..b50b5dac95b 100644 --- a/drivers/ide/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/ide/Kconfig @@ -131,29 +131,6 @@ config BLK_DEV_IDEDISK If unsure, say Y. -config IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE - bool "Use multiple sector mode for Programmed Input/Output by default" - help - This setting is irrelevant for most IDE disks, with direct memory - access, to which multiple sector mode does not apply. Multiple sector - mode is a feature of most modern IDE hard drives, permitting the - transfer of multiple sectors per Programmed Input/Output interrupt, - rather than the usual one sector per interrupt. When this feature is - enabled, it can reduce operating system overhead for disk Programmed - Input/Output. On some systems, it also can increase the data - throughput of Programmed Input/Output. Some drives, however, seemed - to run slower with multiple sector mode enabled. Some drives claimed - to support multiple sector mode, but lost data at some settings. - Under rare circumstances, such failures could result in massive - filesystem corruption. - - If you get the following error, try to say Y here: - - hda: set_multmode: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } - hda: set_multmode: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } - - If in doubt, say N. - config BLK_DEV_IDECS tristate "PCMCIA IDE support" depends on PCMCIA @@ -242,7 +219,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY module will be called ide-floppy. config BLK_DEV_IDESCSI - tristate "SCSI emulation support" + tristate "SCSI emulation support (DEPRECATED)" depends on SCSI select IDE_ATAPI ---help--- @@ -255,20 +232,6 @@ config BLK_DEV_IDESCSI and will allow you to use a SCSI device driver instead of a native ATAPI driver. - This is useful if you have an ATAPI device for which no native - driver has been written (for example, an ATAPI PD-CD drive); - you can then use this emulation together with an appropriate SCSI - device driver. In order to do this, say Y here and to "SCSI support" - and "SCSI generic support", below. You must then provide the kernel - command line "hdx=ide-scsi" (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) for devices if you want the - native EIDE sub-drivers to skip over the native support, so that - this SCSI emulation can be used instead. - - Note that this option does NOT allow you to attach SCSI devices to a - box that doesn't have a SCSI host adapter installed. - If both this SCSI emulation and native ATAPI support are compiled into the kernel, the native support will be used. @@ -306,6 +269,20 @@ config IDE_GENERIC tristate "generic/default IDE chipset support" depends on ALPHA || X86 || IA64 || M32R || MIPS help + This is the generic IDE driver. This driver attaches to the + fixed legacy ports (e.g. on PCs 0x1f0/0x170, 0x1e8/0x168 and + so on). Please note that if this driver is built into the + kernel or loaded before other ATA (IDE or libata) drivers + and the controller is located at legacy ports, this driver + may grab those ports and thus can prevent the controller + specific driver from attaching. + + Also, currently, IDE generic doesn't allow IRQ sharing + meaning that the IRQs it grabs won't be available to other + controllers sharing those IRQs which usually makes drivers + for those controllers fail. Generally, it's not a good idea + to load IDE generic driver on modern systems. + If unsure, say N. config BLK_DEV_PLATFORM @@ -780,10 +757,6 @@ config BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PMAC to transfer data to and from memory. Saying Y is safe and improves performance. -config BLK_DEV_IDE_SWARM - tristate "IDE for Sibyte evaluation boards" - depends on SIBYTE_SB1xxx_SOC - config BLK_DEV_IDE_AU1XXX bool "IDE for AMD Alchemy Au1200" depends on SOC_AU1200 |