From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] ide: make legacy IDE VLB modules check for the "probe" kernel params Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:17:44 +0000 Message-ID: <20070214111744.76553c43@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070214015603.4619.41923.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <20070214015712.4619.78705.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <20070214105329.3cc6ec27@localhost.localdomain> <200702141207.27483.bzolnier@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:38132 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750780AbXBNLDm (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:03:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200702141207.27483.bzolnier@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org > > No point obsoleting the old ones. By the time being obsolete turns into > > being anything like "gone", the hardware won't exist. It just causes > > We don't have stable rules for kernel parameters. We have fifteen years of traditional, common sense and the like > I'll make warnings more verbose, i.e. > > 'please use "ali14xx.probe" boot option instead of obsoleted "ide0=probe"' Just leave the old option in as well, nobody needs to care that you are changing it. Alan