Re: 2.6.6 on Blue&White G3
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 04:13:49PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > Why do the drives get numbered in a different order?
> >
> > In 2.4, the drivers for both your controllers were built into the
> > kernel. They probably got probed in alphabetical order, which
>
> Nope, they get probed in the precise order that is defined in the IDE
> driver (there's a lengthy struct populated with IDE driver inits in the
> code, the order of which may be governed by subtle rules like which
> driver init might interfere with others, and the IDE maintainer will
> sure have my head for suggesting to tamper with the list :-).
>
> Move ide_pmac up in this list to have it always probed first. Isn´t
> there a config option ´prob eonboard chipsets first´in 2.6? What does it
> do in this case?
Why not use discover in the initrd ? Would this be too place consuming ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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