Re: [MIPS] SMTC: Fix crash on bootup with idebus= command line argument.

[Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:27:54 +0100 (BST), "Maciej W. Rozycki" 
<macro@linux-mips.org> wrote:
> >  include/asm-mips/mach-generic/ide.h |   76 
> > ++++++++++++-----------------------
> >  1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
> 
>  This change breaks the SWARM -- depending on the setting of 
> CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC, either a bus error happens because of blind probing or 
> the onboard IDE interface gets designated as "ide2".  I cannot really see 
> a dependency between "idebus=" (which merely sets a variable somewhere in 
> drivers/ide/ide.c) and code affected by this change -- what's the reason 
> behind it?

http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2007-09/msg00016.html
would be the answer :)

And how about this patch?  Does this fix the problem on SWARM?
http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2007-09/msg00036.html

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Atsushi Nemoto