[PATCH] ide: explain the PCI bus test we do in <asm-i386/ide.h>
authorAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Wed, 9 Nov 2005 23:10:37 +0000 (00:10 +0100)
committerBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Wed, 9 Nov 2005 23:10:37 +0000 (00:10 +0100)
Matthew Wilcox asked that this got a comment explaining why it is done
so here it is.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
include/asm-i386/ide.h

index 79dfab87135d5448673e92bc60d42fb5b096bf75..454440193eacd8913277df03e9593ed3d3169dbb 100644 (file)
@@ -41,6 +41,12 @@ static __inline__ int ide_default_irq(unsigned long base)
 
 static __inline__ unsigned long ide_default_io_base(int index)
 {
+       /*
+        *      If PCI is present then it is not safe to poke around
+        *      the other legacy IDE ports. Only 0x1f0 and 0x170 are
+        *      defined compatibility mode ports for PCI. A user can 
+        *      override this using ide= but we must default safe.
+        */
        if (pci_find_device(PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, NULL) == NULL) {
                switch(index) {
                        case 2: return 0x1e8;