Re: [PATCH] 2.5.14 IDE 56

Alan Cox
2002-05-08T12:00:17Z

> RedHat even disables all this chip set specific reporting in theyr
> public kernels. OK kudzu is using it, but it does not *rely on it*.

The boot kernel has a lot of it disabled not the main ones.

> Heck kudzu is running all the time I rebooted my system during
> developement and nothing ugly did happen.

I can't speak directly for the Kudzu maintainer but I can say that having
a sane way to obtain the list of ide devices (all of them not just non
pcmcia) and the device bindings/type has been a long standing request.

If 2.6 breaks a 2.4 installer and nothing else I don't think its a big
disaster and the cleanup may well be justified