From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] ide: make legacy IDE VLB modules check for the "probe" kernel params Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:19:52 +0100 Message-ID: <200702141219.52236.bzolnier@gmail.com> References: <20070214015603.4619.41923.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <200702141207.27483.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20070214111744.76553c43@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.175]:36891 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751008AbXBNLOK (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:14:10 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so147977uga for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 03:14:09 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20070214111744.76553c43@localhost.localdomain> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 14 February 2007 12:17, Alan wrote: > > > 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. The old options are still here but OK I won't obsolete them until all "idex=" options get obsoleted. Bart