Messages in this thread | | | From | "Adam J. Richter" <> | Date | Wed, 7 Aug 2002 00:54:54 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] pdc20265 problem. |
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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?
You might not see them on linux-kenrel, but there are lots of Linux users that are not comfortable compiling a custom kernel (or even competent to do so), but are a bit more willing to edit files and rerun a boot configuration utility like lilo.
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.
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