Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:46:53 +0100 | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.10-ac1 |
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On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 14:28:53 +0000, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > On Llu, 2004-12-27 at 01:40, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > Do you want to force people to disable the io-apic just because of > > > option removal? In my case the serialized devices are a disk and a > > > dvd-rw which is rarely used, so disabling the io-apic is a bad solution. > > > > No, I want them to fix the problem - whenever it is - ide or apic code. :) > > Or hardware, or SMM .... > > There are some very complex obscure platform specific funnies that end > up solved by serialize that I doubt anyone will get to the bottom of > before all the worlds parallel ATA drives have turned to rust (and/or > sand). > > It seems the gnome desktop disease[1] is spreading to some kernel > people. It's all init code, its cheap and it works. Making it automated > in more cases is great, but you'll never stamp out the need for the > manual one even if its to do the debug to get the automated case right. > > Alan > > [1] Removing configuration features people need before (if ever) > providing a working alternative that is automatic.
I use KDE. 8)
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