On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 13:13, Manfred Preußig 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{.n++%ݶw{.n+{G{ayʇڙ,jfhz_(階ݢj"mG?&~iOzv^m ?I