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Re: Switch to 2.6.25



On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote:

> 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?

on my TODO, currently fjp has the best write up on the current situation.
wanted to double check it and give it some thought

ide-generic sucks^Wwins usually tooo often
 
> >>       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?

right yes forget isa for now.

amicalement

-- 
maks


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