Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:Well, the badness mentioned above is the swapping of what gets loaded first from the testing branch to the upstream patches. In mm, sata gets loaded before pata in libata land. In alan cox's patches it's the reverse. This results in different device names for the same config when switching between mm and release, which is bad, but is a problem that can be overcome with the use of labels instead of device names.
That's bad.
Given that libata goes through the scsi layer at the moment, shifting
from the traditional PATA drivers to the libata ones is going to result
in a shift from hdfoo to sdbar. We're not really looking forward to this
from the distribution point of view, though I think the same thing
happened in the past when shifting from the ancient SATA drivers to the
libata ones.