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diff --git a/drivers/ide/Kconfig b/drivers/ide/Kconfig
index fc735ab08ff4..b50b5dac95b0 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/ide/Kconfig
@@ -131,29 +131,6 @@ config BLK_DEV_IDEDISK
If unsure, say Y.
-config IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE
- bool "Use multiple sector mode for Programmed Input/Output by default"
- help
- This setting is irrelevant for most IDE disks, with direct memory
- access, to which multiple sector mode does not apply. Multiple sector
- mode is a feature of most modern IDE hard drives, permitting the
- transfer of multiple sectors per Programmed Input/Output interrupt,
- rather than the usual one sector per interrupt. When this feature is
- enabled, it can reduce operating system overhead for disk Programmed
- Input/Output. On some systems, it also can increase the data
- throughput of Programmed Input/Output. Some drives, however, seemed
- to run slower with multiple sector mode enabled. Some drives claimed
- to support multiple sector mode, but lost data at some settings.
- Under rare circumstances, such failures could result in massive
- filesystem corruption.
-
- If you get the following error, try to say Y here:
-
- hda: set_multmode: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
- hda: set_multmode: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
-
- If in doubt, say N.
-
config BLK_DEV_IDECS
tristate "PCMCIA IDE support"
depends on PCMCIA
@@ -292,6 +269,20 @@ config IDE_GENERIC
tristate "generic/default IDE chipset support"
depends on ALPHA || X86 || IA64 || M32R || MIPS
help
+ This is the generic IDE driver. This driver attaches to the
+ fixed legacy ports (e.g. on PCs 0x1f0/0x170, 0x1e8/0x168 and
+ so on). Please note that if this driver is built into the
+ kernel or loaded before other ATA (IDE or libata) drivers
+ and the controller is located at legacy ports, this driver
+ may grab those ports and thus can prevent the controller
+ specific driver from attaching.
+
+ Also, currently, IDE generic doesn't allow IRQ sharing
+ meaning that the IRQs it grabs won't be available to other
+ controllers sharing those IRQs which usually makes drivers
+ for those controllers fail. Generally, it's not a good idea
+ to load IDE generic driver on modern systems.
+
If unsure, say N.
config BLK_DEV_PLATFORM
@@ -766,10 +757,6 @@ config BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PMAC
to transfer data to and from memory. Saying Y is safe and improves
performance.
-config BLK_DEV_IDE_SWARM
- tristate "IDE for Sibyte evaluation boards"
- depends on SIBYTE_SB1xxx_SOC
-
config BLK_DEV_IDE_AU1XXX
bool "IDE for AMD Alchemy Au1200"
depends on SOC_AU1200