Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Oct 2002 16:35:15 -0500 | From | Shawn <> | Subject | Re: Linux v2.5.43 |
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On 10/16, Bill Davidsen said something like: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > A huge merging frenzy for the feature freeze, although I also spent a few > > days getting rid of the need for ide-scsi.c and the SCSI layer to burn > > CD-ROM's with the IDE driver (it still needs an update to cdrecord, I sent > > those off to the maintainer). > > I hope you haven't broken running WITH ide-scsi, because most people still > run 2.4 kernels in real life and only test 2.5 because someone has to do > it. Reconfiguring the system to use ide-scsi or not is just one more PITA > thing which needs to be done, or more likely forgotten, with every new > kernel.
Honestly, I think it's ok to bust the old stuff if needed. This is simply my opinion from a user standpoint.
It's really just one kernel argument or /etc/modules.conf modification to fix the old setup, asnd likely, if you set it up in the first place, you can un-set it up.
-- Shawn Leas core@enodev.com
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