Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262388AbUDOTYQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:24:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262353AbUDOTYQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:24:16 -0400 Received: from zero.aec.at ([193.170.194.10]:50955 "EHLO zero.aec.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262481AbUDOTYN (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:24:13 -0400 To: Marcelo Tosatti cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SATA support merge in 2.4.27 References: <1Ljts-1eQ-29@gated-at.bofh.it> From: Andi Kleen Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:24:09 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1Ljts-1eQ-29@gated-at.bofh.it> (Marcelo Tosatti's message of "Thu, 15 Apr 2004 20:10:14 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 837 Lines: 24 Marcelo Tosatti writes: > Jeff Garzik sent me a SATA update to be merged in 2.4.x. > > A lot of new boxes are shipping with SATA-only disks, and its pretty bad > to not have a "stable" series without such industry-standard support. > > This is the last feature to be merged on 2.4.x, and only because its quite > necessary. > > Any oppositions? The big problem is that the SATA code will move some disks from /dev/hdX to /dev/sdX (e.g. most disks in modern intel chipsets) And then the boxes don't boot anymore. It's probably a bad idea to merge it. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/