Re: Switch to 2.6.25
Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> writes:
> On Sunday 22 June 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> I've prepared a set of patches against current kernel-wedge to update
>> it.
>
> Thanks.
>
>> - ide-generic-pci
>>
>> I haven't add it since I found no reference about it being used by
>> other distros and then I prefer to still use ide-generic for now,
>> so near of release
>
> I'm still not sure about this one. Current support for ide-generic in D-I
> and initramfs-tools is far from perfect and could still be considered a
> regression from Etch. It could well be that ide-generic-pci fills an
> important gap here. We really should discuss this with the kernel team.
Kernel Team, please give us some guidance on that. Should we use
ide-generic-pci or ide-generic?
>> cdrom-core-modules: add ide-cd_mod.
>> ide-modules: add ide-pnp.
>
> Some more explanation for these would be nice. Please remember that the
> changelog is not only _what_ you do, but also _why_ you do it.
Looking again, I think we could skip ide-pnp. At least from the source
it looks to be ISA related and I think we doesn't need to include it
until we get complains about non-working systems.
Kernel Team, any guidance here too?
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