Re: Wish for 2006 to Alan Cox and Jeff Garzik: A functional Driverfor PDC202XX

From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed Jun 21 2006 - 09:50:34 EST


Ar Mer, 2006-06-21 am 09:34 -0400, ysgrifennodd Mike Snitzer:
> I have a PDC20267 and tried out 2.6.17 + linux-2.6.17-ide1.gz The
> resulting pata_pdc202xx_old module didn't initialize the controller on
> boot (via initrd). Is there some other CONFIG option or linux cmdline
> that should be used?

No it should find it as soon as you load the module. If the device is
not the primary IDE controller (hda-hdd) you can set CONFIG_IDE = y,
include drivers for your other controller and get some debug info.

Usually "it didnt initialize" reports are from people with mixed old/new
IDE in their kernel or initrd, or initrds missing the required modules.

Stick a printk in pdc_init before the pci_register_driver call and
you'll know for sure if the module is getting loaded. If it is then send
me an lspci and I'll have a deeper look


Alan

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