[arch-dev-public] udev-149...

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Fri Dec 4 08:50:59 EST 2009


On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Jan de Groot schrieb:
>>
>> The libata framework is stable for 2.6.27, I'm using libata on 2.6.24
>> and 2.6.26 without problems, so 2.6.27 shouldn't be an issue.
>> Problem is the drivers. Not all drivers are bug-free in the libata
>> framework. With intel you won't notice any problems, but the sis driver
>> is a bit suspicious.
>>
>
> The pata_sis driver never worked for my desktop - until the motherboard went
> up in smoke, so I cannot test if this improved.
>
> That said, I agree that we can remove IDE from 2.6.32 with the appropriate
> warning signs set everywhere.

Hell no, -300 on this. My second computer won't boot at *all* with the
newer drivers, it absolutely needs the older drivers. What is the rush
to kill these drivers from our kernel anyway? If upstream doesn't
remove them we shouldn't be...

-Dan


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