Wenzhuo: Ah the NASA card : ) How long do you want to wait for support for "new" features for? I mean what do you need more than 128Kbytes RAM if NASA can fly to the moon on that... You don't _really_ need to use the internet do you - a space shuttle doesn't... ;)
On a more serious (but still unhelpful) note this is the way Linux has always worked (and bizarrely WHY it works). It's painful if you're the one whose hardware hasn't been tested (I always say Linux works best for those who test it and are involved the most...) but it's the reason why the community is vibrant. It's also the reason that Red Hat gets to charge big bucks for slow moving distributions like RHEL and why Ubuntu only offers long term support on only a few releases. The moment you say "I'm not going to follow the upstream package" the maintenance problems start growing. Eventually they become absolutely massive as you start having to backport things like security fixes across interfaces that have changed. The libata issue has two sides to it too. There is some unknown subset of people whose IDE controllers don't work (or have problems) with the libata driver. However there is ANOTHER unknown subset of people with _similar controllers_ whose hardware doesn't work with the old PATA drivers. Because it is unclear which controllers fall into which category every change (either to or away from libata) is greeted with complaints from people whose hardware doesn't work. Until the subsets can be accurately identified the complaints will only continue - there's no one size fits all. My hope is that the problems that libata causes are finally identified and fixed and then everyone can use it but I think we are at least a year off that. -- feisty doesn't work with external CD writers anymore https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/109211 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
