Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261292AbUDOTfJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:35:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262101AbUDOTfJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:35:09 -0400 Received: from havoc.gtf.org ([216.162.42.101]:20900 "EHLO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261292AbUDOTfD (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:35:03 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:32:58 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik To: Andi Kleen Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SATA support merge in 2.4.27 Message-ID: <20040415193258.GA28951@havoc.gtf.org> References: <1Ljts-1eQ-29@gated-at.bofh.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1043 Lines: 31 On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:24:09PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > 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. This statement is false for the majority of the SATA drivers. Further, ata_piix is not included in the merge. Jeff - 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/