Re: PATA transition

2010-03-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 21 March 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 03:29 +, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > elen...@planet.nl wrote: > > >I don't think the first would be a very good idea as it means that > > > we'll still not be rid of the IDE drivers. It seems better to > > > concentrate the > > >

Re: PATA transition

2010-03-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 03:29 +, Marco d'Itri wrote: > elen...@planet.nl wrote: > > >I don't think the first would be a very good idea as it means that we'll > >still not be rid of the IDE drivers. It seems better to concentrate the > Indeed. Please remember that udev has at least a couple of o

Re: PATA transition

2010-03-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
elen...@planet.nl wrote: >I don't think the first would be a very good idea as it means that we'll >still not be rid of the IDE drivers. It seems better to concentrate the Indeed. Please remember that udev has at least a couple of open bugs about things like persistent links breaking with the IDE

Re: PATA transition

2010-03-18 Thread Frans Pop
(Please CC on replies.) On Thursday 18 March 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 05:05:47PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Thursday 18 March 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > PATA drivers of either flavour are mostly selected on a > > > per-architecture basis, and no change has bee

Re: PATA transition

2010-03-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 05:05:47PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > (Replying to the list only; please CC me on replies as I'm not subscribed) > > On Thursday 18 March 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > PATA drivers of either flavour are mostly selected on a per-architecture > > basis, and no change has been

Re: PATA transition

2010-03-18 Thread Frans Pop
(Replying to the list only; please CC me on replies as I'm not subscribed) On Thursday 18 March 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: > PATA drivers of either flavour are mostly selected on a per-architecture > basis, and no change has been made to non-x86. If people are willing to > test on the non-x86 arc

Re: PATA transition

2010-03-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 10:01 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Re your blog post. > > > The libata transition for PATA (IDE) controller drivers. After some > > review we realised that this only affects PC hardware at the moment, so > > only users of the i386 or amd64 architectures will see the upgrade > >