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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Dirk GOUDERS <hank@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de>
Cc: bzolnier@gmail.com, muli@il.ibm.com, discuss@x86-64.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
	jdmason@kudzu.us, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Subject: Re: [discuss] "ide=reverse" do we still need this?
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:48:18 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080213204818.GA9939@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3138.1202932815@sora.hank.home>

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 09:00:15PM +0100, Dirk GOUDERS wrote:
> 
> > Hm, so, to summarize:
> >   - you needed this option many years ago to get a box to work properly
> >   - you don't need this today
> > 
> > So, if the option went away, you would not be inconvenienced?
> 
> After having reanimated the old system and after comments of other
> persons I would not be inconvenienced if the option went away.
> 
> The system indeed did not boot correctly without that option, because
> the disks appeared in a wrong order.  On the other hand, I was able to
> (re)install bootloaders (grub as well as lilo) and after that did not
> need the option any more.  Unfortunately, after that I was not able to
> reproduce the initial situation where the option was needed.

Great, thanks a lot for testing this, and letting us know.

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2008-02-13 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-13  0:15 "ide=reverse" do we still need this? Greg KH
2008-02-13  0:16 ` pci_get_device_reverse(), why does Calgary " Greg KH
2008-02-13  2:17   ` Alan Cox
2008-02-13  4:45     ` Greg KH
2008-02-13 12:34       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-02-13 17:28         ` Greg KH
2008-02-13 18:16           ` Greg KH
2008-02-13 22:20             ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-02-13 23:41               ` Greg KH
2008-02-14  0:02                 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-02-14  4:58                   ` Greg KH
2008-02-14 13:09               ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-02-14  7:44             ` [discuss] " Andreas Jaeger
2008-02-14 12:11               ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-02-15  7:17                 ` Greg KH
2008-02-20  0:39                 ` Greg KH
2008-02-13  9:32   ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2008-02-13 17:32     ` Greg KH
2008-02-13 17:47       ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2008-02-13 18:14         ` Greg KH
2008-02-15  7:17           ` Greg KH
2008-02-15  7:48             ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2008-02-15 15:20               ` Greg KH
2008-02-15 15:31                 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-15 15:46                   ` yong xue
2008-02-15 18:28                   ` Greg KH
2008-02-17  7:53                     ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2008-02-13  1:41 ` "ide=reverse" do we still " Rene Herman
2008-02-13  4:44   ` Greg KH
2008-02-13 12:06     ` Rene Herman
2008-02-13 12:16       ` Michael Ellerman
2008-02-13 12:46         ` Rene Herman
2008-02-13 22:39           ` Michael Ellerman
2008-02-13 12:57       ` Rene Herman
2008-02-14 17:16     ` Bill Davidsen
2008-02-15 13:58       ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-02-13  2:43 ` Ken Moffat
2008-02-13  4:43   ` Greg KH
2008-02-13 15:32     ` Ken Moffat
2008-02-19 15:08       ` Ken Moffat
2008-02-13  7:54 ` [discuss] " Dirk GOUDERS
2008-02-13  8:26   ` Greg KH
2008-02-13  8:54     ` Dirk GOUDERS
2008-02-13 20:00     ` Dirk GOUDERS
2008-02-13 20:48       ` Greg KH [this message]

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