From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265268AbUBIQ5a (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:57:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265270AbUBIQ5V (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:57:21 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:35463 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265268AbUBIQ5P (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:57:15 -0500 Message-ID: <4027BBDE.1090300@pobox.com> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 11:57:02 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Horsten CC: Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New mailing list for 2.6 Medley RAID (Silicon Image 3112 etc.) BIOS RAID development References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Thomas Horsten wrote: > My gut feeling is that if it is provided by the BIOS and reliable > autodetection is possible, it should be autodetected. Why require the user > to discover and supply information that the kernel could easily and > reliably find out by itself? Besides, if there is no autodetection, the The autodetection will occur, reliably and without additional user information, from initramfs. As Arjan said, we are moving this type of stuff out of the kernel. Jeff