Re: [PATCH] hw-detect: Do not attempt to load ide-generic if paravirt is active.

2009-09-13 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 19:08 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > I support the idea and it looks like the most correct way of dealing with it. > > If no one objects, please go ahead and commit it. Thanks, will do it tomorrow or so to give time for objections. Ian. -- Ian Campbell The amount of ti

Re: [PATCH] hw-detect: Do not attempt to load ide-generic if paravirt is active.

2009-09-12 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello Ian, On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 17:05 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >> >> It's only legacy (non-PnP) ISA drivers of which AFAIK ide-generic is >> the only one d-i tries to load by default > > This made me wonder why we even need to report failu

Re: [PATCH] hw-detect: Do not attempt to load ide-generic if paravirt is active.

2009-09-10 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 17:05 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > It's only legacy (non-PnP) ISA drivers of which AFAIK ide-generic is > the only one d-i tries to load by default This made me wonder why we even need to report failure to load ide-generic to the user, after all if it loads but doesn't fin

Re: [PATCH] hw-detect: Do not attempt to load ide-generic if paravirt is active.

2009-08-31 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 14:34 +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Ian Campbell writes: > > > The lguest and Xen paravirt_ops implementations both reserve all IO > > ports in the 0-65535 range which prevents ide-generic from loading > > Excuse me for being daft, but wasn't that the whole point of > paravi

Re: [PATCH] hw-detect: Do not attempt to load ide-generic if paravirt is active.

2009-08-31 Thread Bjørn Mork
Ian Campbell writes: > The lguest and Xen paravirt_ops implementations both reserve all IO > ports in the 0-65535 range which prevents ide-generic from loading Excuse me for being daft, but wasn't that the whole point of paravirt-ioport? /* * Reserve the whole legacy IO space to prevent any

[PATCH] hw-detect: Do not attempt to load ide-generic if paravirt is active.

2009-08-31 Thread Ian Campbell
The lguest and Xen paravirt_ops implementations both reserve all IO ports in the 0-65535 range which prevents ide-generic from loading and leads to an error dialog being presented to the user. --- packages/hw-detect/debian/changelog |4 packages/hw-detect/hw-detect.sh |3 ++- 2 fi