From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262299AbVD1W17 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2005 18:27:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262301AbVD1W1x (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2005 18:27:53 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:28113 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262298AbVD1W1m (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2005 18:27:42 -0400 Subject: Re: Multiple functionality breakages in 2.6.12rc3 IDE layer From: Alan Cox To: Bill Davidsen Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1114727182.24687.235.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 23:26:27 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Iau, 2005-04-28 at 19:13, Bill Davidsen wrote: > On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Alan Cox wrote: > But isn't that the stuff we use for swapping drives? Down the drive, down > the interface, swap, and restart? Are these the functions called by hdparm > (-bRU) which are all of a sudden not going to work? Or am I being > alarmist? True but the only kernels supporting that are 2.4.x-ac. There are reasons I noticed this and looking at getting 2.6 IDE back to 2.4 standards in this area was one of them. > I missed the discussion of why it was felt that the users would no longer > want to be able to do these things, or the new way to do it. I'm assuming it may be accidental rather than detailed planning. Also its taken this long to notice so its clearly not that critical to everyone. Seems to be reasonably sane to fix too. Alan