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SubjectRe: [PATCH] 2.5.14 IDE 56
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>>>>> "linus" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:

Hi

linus> (Side note: I'm afraid that don't think backwards compatibility weighs
linus> very heavily on an embedded setup - I'm more thinking about things like "a
linus> regular RedHat/SuSE/Debian/whatever install won't work any more".)

here at Mandrake we have a patch for the install kernel to remove the
/proc/ide, and I think that we got it from redhat, that means that at
least two distros preffer to save ~25kb in the boot kernels than the
reporting that they do :p

Later, Juan.

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