From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752273AbYKQM7S (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:59:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751232AbYKQM7F (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:59:05 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.170]:20606 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751206AbYKQM7D (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:59:03 -0500 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:59:01 +0100 From: "Kay Sievers" To: "=?UTF-8?Q?Manfred_Preu=C3=9Fig?=" Subject: Re: Just a small question on new kernels Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <49216E17.32742.2039A2@PreussigM.web.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Disposition: inline References: <49216E17.32742.2039A2@PreussigM.web.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by alpha id mAHCxLdq017890 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