I find out it's already defined in pci_ids.h so shouldnt be needed here.
We will update this point later.
> 2. Why are you gurading all lba48 accesses by the promise
> vendor id?
That's because we don't want to influence the on-board IDE and other IDE
controller's R/W routine. So it will just works on PROMISE controllers.
> 3. Are there any reasons for enabling the IDEDMA_TIMEOUT handling
> unconditionally?
If we enable IDEDMA_TIMEOUT, kernel will look for
ide_dma_timeout_revovery() to retry again when drive's DMA timeout.
Thank you for yours efforts to look at this patch.
Best Regards
Hank Yang
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