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Re: prepare 2.6.13



On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:28:31AM +0200, Maik Zumstrull wrote:
> Horms wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 07:05:59PM +0200, Maik Zumstrull wrote:
> > 
> >>Please evaluate just how broken ATAPI-over-SATA really is right now and
> >>consider enabling it. AFAIK other distributions have been running with
> >>it since 2.6.9 or something, so it can't be all bad from an end-user
> >>POV. And I could finally use my DVD drive without compiling my own
> >>kernel (which I'm too lazy to do, anyway, so I just don't use the drive).
> > 
> > According to correspondence that I had with Jeff Garzik the other day,
> > distributions enabling that option is regarded as folly by upstream
> > as they believe it is still too green.
> 
> Oh well. I guess I'll just have to hope that it will go stable for .14,
> as I have been doing for .12 and .13. Thanks for your efforts.

Yeah, to be honest I have no idea how soon it will be, or 
what the dangers are in the current code. But once it stabalises
upstream it shouldn't be long before it apperas in sid.



-- 
Horms



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