Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.14 IDE 56 | From | Juan Quintela <> | Date | 08 May 2002 09:48:50 +0200 |
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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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