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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-03-22 17:06:57 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-03-22 17:06:57 -0700
commit7f8ed1855d7f23eb5fa1b5d2f890b748ecf95179 (patch)
tree7b653c10a686611c007210d5140074c30d2571b5 /Documentation
parent0d995b2b446c2304c04058bedba49460823adbf7 (diff)
parentca4e2ab5b2764562fe3d41b95b27e6bbd4733d66 (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: Revert "ide-tape: schedule driver for removal after 6 months" ide: mark "hdx=remap" and "hdx=remap63" kernel parameters as obsoleted ide: mark "hdx=[driver_name]" and "hdx=scsi" kernel parameters as obsoleted ide: Documentation/ide/ide.txt fixes ide: mark special "ide0=" kernel parameters as obsoleted ide: remove commented out entries from ide_pio_blacklist[]
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ide/ide.txt21
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index c1d1fd0c299..bf0e3df8e7a 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -172,16 +172,6 @@ Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
---------------------------
-What: ide-tape driver
-When: July 2008
-Files: drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
-Why: This driver might not have any users anymore and maintaining it for no
- reason is an effort no one wants to make.
-Who: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>, Borislav Petkov
- <petkovbb@googlemail.com>
-
----------------------------
-
What: libata spindown skipping and warning
When: Dec 2008
Why: Some halt(8) implementations synchronize caches for and spin
diff --git a/Documentation/ide/ide.txt b/Documentation/ide/ide.txt
index e3b3425328b..818676aad45 100644
--- a/Documentation/ide/ide.txt
+++ b/Documentation/ide/ide.txt
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ Drives are normally found by auto-probing and/or examining the CMOS/BIOS data.
For really weird situations, the apparent (fdisk) geometry can also be specified
on the kernel "command line" using LILO. The format of such lines is:
- hdx=cyls,heads,sects,wpcom,irq
+ hdx=cyls,heads,sects
or hdx=cdrom
where hdx can be any of hda through hdh, Three values are required
@@ -214,9 +214,9 @@ driver using the "options=" keyword to insmod, while replacing any ',' with
Summary of ide driver parameters for kernel command line
--------------------------------------------------------
- "hdx=" is recognized for all "x" from "a" to "h", such as "hdc".
+ "hdx=" is recognized for all "x" from "a" to "u", such as "hdc".
- "idex=" is recognized for all "x" from "0" to "3", such as "ide1".
+ "idex=" is recognized for all "x" from "0" to "9", such as "ide1".
"hdx=noprobe" : drive may be present, but do not probe for it
@@ -228,13 +228,6 @@ Summary of ide driver parameters for kernel command line
"hdx=cyl,head,sect" : disk drive is present, with specified geometry
- "hdx=remap" : remap access of sector 0 to sector 1 (for EZDrive)
-
- "hdx=remap63" : remap the drive: add 63 to all sector numbers
- (for DM OnTrack)
-
- "idex=noautotune" : driver will NOT attempt to tune interface speed
-
"hdx=autotune" : driver will attempt to tune interface speed
to the fastest PIO mode supported,
if possible for this drive only.
@@ -244,10 +237,6 @@ Summary of ide driver parameters for kernel command line
"hdx=nodma" : disallow DMA
- "hdx=scsi" : the return of the ide-scsi flag, this is useful for
- allowing ide-floppy, ide-tape, and ide-cdrom|writers
- to use ide-scsi emulation on a device specific option.
-
"idebus=xx" : inform IDE driver of VESA/PCI bus speed in MHz,
where "xx" is between 20 and 66 inclusive,
used when tuning chipset PIO modes.
@@ -282,10 +271,6 @@ Summary of ide driver parameters for kernel command line
"ide=reverse" : formerly called to pci sub-system, but now local.
-The following are valid ONLY on ide0, which usually corresponds
-to the first ATA interface found on the particular host, and the defaults for
-the base,ctl ports must not be altered.
-
"ide=doubler" : probe/support IDE doublers on Amiga
There may be more options than shown -- use the source, Luke!