From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: [PATCH 4/8] ide: deprecate CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:05:47 +0100 Message-ID: <200711290105.47257.bzolnier@gmail.com> 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 ([66.249.92.171]:44019 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757756AbXK2ACs (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:02:48 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so1659756ugc for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:02:47 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz --- drivers/ide/Kconfig | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: b/drivers/ide/Kconfig =================================================================== --- a/drivers/ide/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/ide/Kconfig @@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ config IDEPCI_PCIBUS_ORDER # TODO: split it on per host driver config options (or module parameters) config BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD - bool "Boot off-board chipsets first support" + bool "Boot off-board chipsets first support (DEPRECATED)" depends on BLK_DEV_IDEPCI && (BLK_DEV_AEC62XX || BLK_DEV_GENERIC || BLK_DEV_HPT34X || BLK_DEV_HPT366 || BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_NEW || BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_OLD || BLK_DEV_TC86C001) help Normally, IDE controllers built into the motherboard (on-board @@ -398,6 +398,10 @@ config BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD Note that, if you do this, the order of the hd* devices will be rearranged which may require modification of fstab and other files. + Please also note that this method of assuring stable naming of + IDE devices is unreliable and use other means for achieving it + (i.e. udev). + If in doubt, say N. config BLK_DEV_GENERIC