From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264473AbTDPQOk (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:14:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264475AbTDPQOj (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:14:39 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:23236 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264473AbTDPQOi (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:14:38 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] kill ide-geometry.c, fix boot problems From: Alan Cox To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , mbligh@aracnet.com In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1050506897.28591.124.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 16 Apr 2003 16:28:18 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mer, 2003-04-16 at 16:16, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > All traces of ide_xlate_1024 have been removed. > Few people need it, and sometimes it was directly > harmful. (And it is dead code in 2.5.recent.) > There are now boot options "remap" and "remap63" > for people with EZD or DM. There are lots of people with remap/remap63 needs. This should be automated as it was before or it will be a nightmare. You are desperate to remove the ide_xlate stuff but you can't do that without providing equivalent automatic functionality, either thats in base or that the vendors all just merge anyway.