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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/ide/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/ide/Kconfig | 41 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ide/Kconfig b/drivers/ide/Kconfig index fc735ab08ff..b50b5dac95b 100644 --- a/drivers/ide/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/ide/Kconfig @@ -131,29 +131,6 @@ config BLK_DEV_IDEDISK If unsure, say Y. -config IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE - bool "Use multiple sector mode for Programmed Input/Output by default" - help - This setting is irrelevant for most IDE disks, with direct memory - access, to which multiple sector mode does not apply. Multiple sector - mode is a feature of most modern IDE hard drives, permitting the - transfer of multiple sectors per Programmed Input/Output interrupt, - rather than the usual one sector per interrupt. When this feature is - enabled, it can reduce operating system overhead for disk Programmed - Input/Output. On some systems, it also can increase the data - throughput of Programmed Input/Output. Some drives, however, seemed - to run slower with multiple sector mode enabled. Some drives claimed - to support multiple sector mode, but lost data at some settings. - Under rare circumstances, such failures could result in massive - filesystem corruption. - - If you get the following error, try to say Y here: - - hda: set_multmode: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } - hda: set_multmode: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } - - If in doubt, say N. - config BLK_DEV_IDECS tristate "PCMCIA IDE support" depends on PCMCIA @@ -292,6 +269,20 @@ config IDE_GENERIC tristate "generic/default IDE chipset support" depends on ALPHA || X86 || IA64 || M32R || MIPS help + This is the generic IDE driver. This driver attaches to the + fixed legacy ports (e.g. on PCs 0x1f0/0x170, 0x1e8/0x168 and + so on). Please note that if this driver is built into the + kernel or loaded before other ATA (IDE or libata) drivers + and the controller is located at legacy ports, this driver + may grab those ports and thus can prevent the controller + specific driver from attaching. + + Also, currently, IDE generic doesn't allow IRQ sharing + meaning that the IRQs it grabs won't be available to other + controllers sharing those IRQs which usually makes drivers + for those controllers fail. Generally, it's not a good idea + to load IDE generic driver on modern systems. + If unsure, say N. config BLK_DEV_PLATFORM @@ -766,10 +757,6 @@ config BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PMAC to transfer data to and from memory. Saying Y is safe and improves performance. -config BLK_DEV_IDE_SWARM - tristate "IDE for Sibyte evaluation boards" - depends on SIBYTE_SB1xxx_SOC - config BLK_DEV_IDE_AU1XXX bool "IDE for AMD Alchemy Au1200" depends on SOC_AU1200 |