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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dirk Jagdmann <doj@cubic.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IDE Auto-Geometry Resizing support missing in 2.6.7?
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 21:20:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040616202023.GA19123@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40D0AA07.7010806@cubic.org>

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:13:59PM +0200, Dirk Jagdmann wrote:
> Hello Kernel Developers,
> 
> I have just updated from 2.6.6 to 2.6.7. I need to use the IDE 
> Auto-Geometry Resizing support on my system (CONFIG_IDEDISK_STROKE). The 
> corresponding configuration option however was removed in 2.6.7 along 
> with the define in the .config file. Thus when booting my hard disks are 
> not properly detected (only with the clipped capacity).
> 
> Was the removal of this option intentional? Was the option renamed or moved?

You need to boot with hdX=stroke now.  I had a patch first that allowed both
run- an compiletime selection but Bart wanted the option to be removed.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-16 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-16 20:13 IDE Auto-Geometry Resizing support missing in 2.6.7? Dirk Jagdmann
2004-06-16 20:20 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-06-16 20:50   ` Dirk Jagdmann
2004-06-16 21:07   ` Andries Brouwer
2004-06-16 21:08     ` Christoph Hellwig

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