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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"Robert M. Stockmann" <stock@stokkie.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SATA disk device naming ?
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:07:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40F6C7D3.1070005@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200407151937.43862.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl>

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 of July 2004 13:20, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
>>On Dienstag, 13. Juli 2004 05:04, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>
>>>Whoever builds your kernels changed around the kernel configuration on
>>>you.
>>>
>>>SATA "disk naming" (what driver you use) did not change from 2.6.3 to
>>>2.6.7.
>>
>>The thing that changed is the new BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA option that defaults
>>to 'n', while before it was enabled implicitly.
> 
> 
> This is a quite fresh change (post 2.6.7) and should be fixed before 2.6.8.
> This option should default to 'y', we can put some runtime warning instead.
> 
> Jeff, do you agree?


It's a really tough question...  default=n will eliminate a lot of 
problems people are reporting on lkml, but default=y changes the disks 
for the few users not having problems.

It's a tough call...

	Jeff



  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-15 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-13  2:25 SATA disk device naming ? Robert M. Stockmann
2004-07-13  3:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-14 11:20   ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-07-15 17:37     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-07-15 18:07       ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-07-13  6:46 ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-07-13 13:24   ` Ian Soboroff
2004-07-13 16:23   ` Ricky Beam
2004-07-13 16:49     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-13 17:29       ` Tigran Aivazian
2004-07-13 22:35       ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-14  9:48         ` P
2004-07-15  2:44         ` Joel Becker
2004-07-25 19:05           ` Greg KH
2004-07-13 17:15     ` Tigran Aivazian
2004-07-13 16:58       ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-07-14  0:09 DaMouse

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