From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946851AbXD3WLs (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:11:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946860AbXD3WLr (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:11:47 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:43414 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946857AbXD3WLo (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:11:44 -0400 Message-ID: <4636699E.5040200@garzik.org> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:11:42 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Ebbert CC: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, LKML Subject: Re: [git patches] libata updates References: <20070429161542.GA12501@havoc.gtf.org> <46364901.4000907@redhat.com> <46364C04.4050208@garzik.org> <4636685E.2010701@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4636685E.2010701@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.8 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Chuck Ebbert wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Chuck Ebbert wrote: >>> Jeff Garzik wrote: >>>> Jeff Garzik (8): >>>> libata/IDE: remove combined mode quirk >>> You can't just remove the "combined_mode=" kernel parameter or >>> every Linux user who uses that will get an unbootable kernel >>> with no good way of diagnosing the problem. It should still >>> be accepted and just print a warning. >> No, most modern distros will simply Just Work(tm) due to mount by label, >> udev, and similar gadgets. >> >> As long as you have at least one (if not both) ATA drivers, you have a >> kernel that will boot your hardware. And by definition those using >> combined_mode= do indeed have the necessary drivers. > > OK, this is a kernel parameter and should be fine. But you can't remove > *module* parameters for drivers needed for booting or the initrd will > fail to load the module with "unknown parameter" and users can't boot. No module parameters were removed. Jeff