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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-04-18 00:46:20 +0200
committerBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>2008-04-18 00:46:20 +0200
commita594eeb1a1d320981fccc29584b6f21fcebd765f (patch)
tree55f76c9a9b99c4dd98a5ff6034d7150de7057085 /drivers/ide/Kconfig
parent4b119e21d0c66c22e8ca03df05d9de623d0eb50f (diff)
IDE: remove ide=reverse IDE core
This option is obsolete and can be removed safely. It allows us to remove the pci_get_device_reverse() function from the PCI core. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/ide/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r--drivers/ide/Kconfig9
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ide/Kconfig b/drivers/ide/Kconfig
index eed6d8e1b5c..ac587578343 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/ide/Kconfig
@@ -416,12 +416,6 @@ config BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD
This can improve the usability of some boot managers such as lilo
when booting from a drive on an off-board controller.
- If you say Y here, and you actually want to reverse the device scan
- order as explained above, you also need to issue the kernel command
- line option "ide=reverse". (Try "man bootparam" or see the
- documentation of your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to
- pass options to the kernel at boot time.)
-
Note that, if you do this, the order of the hd* devices will be
rearranged which may require modification of fstab and other files.
@@ -615,8 +609,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_HPT366
reference to device 0x80. The other solution is to say Y to "Boot
off-board chipsets first support" (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD) unless
your mother board has the chipset natively mounted. Regardless one
- should use the fore mentioned option and call at LILO or include
- "ide=reverse" in LILO's append-line.
+ should use the fore mentioned option and call at LILO.
This driver requires dynamic tuning of the chipset during the
ide-probe at boot. It is reported to support DVD II drives, by the