Re: 2.6.12-rc5-git6 mis-counted ide interfaces

From: Matthias Urlichs
Date: Thu Jun 02 2005 - 11:53:56 EST


Hi, Martin MOKREJÅ wrote:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
>> Martin MOKREJ__ <mmokrejs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
>>> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
>>> Probing IDE interface ide0...
>>> hda: SONY DVD RW DRU-510A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
>>> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
>>> Probing IDE interface ide1...
>>> ----------------------^^^^ ide0 I believe

Why?

>> Does the kernel boot and run OK, or does something actually go wrong?
>
> It works fine, just the *extra* "Probing IDE interface ide1..." line made me
> worry about.

I fail to see the problem -- the kernel probes ide0 once, and ide1 once.
I'd assume that that is what's supposed to happen ..?

I't be more worried if it decided to check ide0 again.

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