The ide-generic driver gives you DMA at bios tuned speed so can actually run a
lot of unsupported devices quite well. It has a pci table so that it doesn't
grab disks owned by other drivers but no way to override this. The patch adds
an option ide-generic-all which makes the driver grab everything going that is
IDE class.
The diff is messy because I put the special case as case 0 to make the if
conditional and long term maintenance easier.
This has been in Fedora for some time.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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