Messages in this thread | | | From | "Petr Vandrovec" <> | Date | Wed, 7 Aug 2002 12:20:43 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] pdc20265 problem. |
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On 7 Aug 02 at 0:54, Adam J. Richter wrote: > Nick Orlov writes: > >But wouldn't it be a cleaner solution if we will have _compile_ time > >option that by default is turned on in order to handle rare cases, > >and _can_ be turned off in order to handle _most_ cases without any > >boot-time options? > > Linux users in the "I'm not a sysadmin" crowd (?) probably > don't care about the scan order of the pdc20265 IDE controller, > but people in the "I'm a sysadmin, not a programmer" crowd > may have legitimiate reasons to.
But such "I'm not a sysadmin" people will be very surprised that their promise was IDE2 in 2.2.x, it was IDE2 in 2.4.18, it is IDE2 in 2.5.30, and now - oops - it is IDE0 in 2.4.19. Broken, I'd say.
There is an CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD option (apparently unused...), so use this one, if some distribution must force ide0= to promise if their installer cannot find master disk on /dev/hde. But changing behavior for no reason - especially in the middle of stable series - is IMHO unacceptable.
Fortunately I use 2.5.30's IDE for real work ;-) Petr Vandrovec vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
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