From: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ide: update Kconfig text to mark as deprecated
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:18:39 +0100
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Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, hancockrwd@gmail.com,
       linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
References: <4AE64FCC.4030102@gmail.com> <20091029.173028.248393897.davem@davemloft.net> <200910300915.51836.Martin@lichtvoll.de> (sfid-20091030_091707_632352_07360635)
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Am Freitag 30 Oktober 2009 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> Am Freitag 30 Oktober 2009 schrieb David Miller:
> > And yes I absolutely do consider it too onerous to change my fstab
> > because I have to (or want to be able to) go back to older kernels
> > which will only have the IDE stack enabled.  I refuse to have to
> > monkey around with my fstab every time I want to go back and forth.
>=20
> You don't need to when you used UUID or LABEL - I prefer the later
>  cause  its more readable. Actually I never quite understood while one
>  would want to use dynamic things like /dev/hdd or /dev/sdb in the
>  first place. Thats for me not that much better than C: or D:. Connect
>  your harddisks differently and you are screwed.

One thing to add: If you use a InitRD, you can use UUID or LABEL in GRUB 1=
=20
as well. I believe GRUB 2 at leasts supports UUID out of the box, but=20
better check this, before relying on my word.

=2D-=20
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA  B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7

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