Re: SATA disk device naming ?

[Jeff Garzik]

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 of July 2004 13:20, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> > On Dienstag, 13. Juli 2004 05:04, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> > > Whoever builds your kernels changed around the kernel configuration on
> > > you.
> > >
> > > SATA "disk naming" (what driver you use) did not change from 2.6.3 to
> > > 2.6.7.
> >
> > The thing that changed is the new BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA option that defaults
> > to 'n', while before it was enabled implicitly.
>
>
> This is a quite fresh change (post 2.6.7) and should be fixed before 2.6.8.
> This option should default to 'y', we can put some runtime warning instead.
>
> Jeff, do you agree?


It's a really tough question...  default=n will eliminate a lot of 
problems people are reporting on lkml, but default=y changes the disks 
for the few users not having problems.

It's a tough call...

	Jeff


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