From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 8 May 2002 08:00:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 8 May 2002 08:00:16 -0400 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:43789 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 8 May 2002 08:00:15 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.14 IDE 56 To: dalecki@evision-ventures.com (Martin Dalecki) Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 13:18:47 +0100 (BST) Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds), alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), padraig@antefacto.com (Padraig Brady), aia21@cantab.net (Anton Altaparmakov), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Kernel Mailing List) In-Reply-To: <3CD8DAA2.6080907@evision-ventures.com> from "Martin Dalecki" at May 08, 2002 09:58:26 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > RedHat even disables all this chip set specific reporting in theyr > public kernels. OK kudzu is using it, but it does not *rely on it*. The boot kernel has a lot of it disabled not the main ones. > Heck kudzu is running all the time I rebooted my system during > developement and nothing ugly did happen. I can't speak directly for the Kudzu maintainer but I can say that having a sane way to obtain the list of ide devices (all of them not just non pcmcia) and the device bindings/type has been a long standing request. If 2.6 breaks a 2.4 installer and nothing else I don't think its a big disaster and the cleanup may well be justified