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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ide: update Kconfig text to mark as deprecated
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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.
>
> 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
as well. I believe GRUB 2 at leasts supports UUID out of the box, but
better check this, before relying on my word.

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