From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266267AbUGOSHt (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:07:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266263AbUGOSHs (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:07:48 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:60091 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266267AbUGOSHr (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:07:47 -0400 Message-ID: <40F6C7D3.1070005@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:07:15 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz CC: Arnd Bergmann , "Robert M. Stockmann" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SATA disk device naming ? References: <40F35140.6020509@pobox.com> <200407141320.32608.arnd@arndb.de> <200407151937.43862.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> In-Reply-To: <200407151937.43862.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> 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 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