Re: [PATCH] Submitting PROMISE IDE Controllers Driver Patch

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Mar 08 2002 - 08:12:25 EST


> > RAID class devices at all. This would just prevent
> > us from having two different entries in the
> > device detection list. Not much more involved I think.
>
> There's one tiny glitch: there are exactly 2 "real" raid devices out there
> (that I know of at least). But anyway, a "don't look at" list will be
> MUCH shorter than a "look also at" list.

Correct. Without the Supertrak series detection code in there anyone booting
a kernel will *really* upset their hardware raid array. Fortunately all
we have to do is to spot promise ide chips beyond an i960 as the current
code does.

Alan
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