[U-Boot] [PATCH] SATA: do not auto-initialize during boot

[Scott Wood]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday 11 December 2008 16:01:33 Scott Wood wrote:
>> Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> why ?  if the hardware doesnt support it, then the user shouldnt be
>>> attempting to use it.  if they do, that's their fault for doing something
>>> stupid.
>> There's no need to be unnecessarily user-hostile.
> 
> there's no need to make u-boot unnecessarily safe for the people who dont 
> understand the system

Oh, please.  It's not like it's stopping any reasonable usage (quite the 
opposite -- removing the check removes a way for the user to find out 
whether SATA is present); it's just avoiding exposing a device that does 
not actually exist.

-Scott