Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:59:01 +0100 | From | "Kay Sievers" <> | Subject | Re: Just a small question on new kernels |
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On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 13:13, Manfred Preußig <PreussigM@web.de> wrote: > since I haven't a subscription yet for the list please send all > answers to me in addition. > > I only want to know one thing: Is there any plan to 'let the older > ide driver die' in kernel or have they done it at all yet? I use an > ide disk with more than 15 partitions due to historic reasons and > don't want to change this. With the kernel I use at the moment I can > add a kernel param (hwprobe=-modules.pata) to prevent the newer > driver from handling the disk and so it works but what's about newer > kernels and what is planned for the future? > > many thanks for any answer (or a link to an answer I overlooked in > archive or FAQ)
sd* block devices, or libata drivers will not have a limit on partitions: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3e1a7ff8a0a7b948f2684930166954f9e8e776fe
Kay
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