Bug#444182: pata disabled in ata_piix
>> I was looking into the same hotswap issue and found to my surprise
>> that the debian kernel has the needed support _removed in the kernel
>> sources_.
> Supporting and not breaking thousands of machines is more important
> that supporting one.
Yes, that would be definitively true.
But there is a problem: the numbers.
I search the web about this problem and I tried different LiveCD: since
about 1-1.5 year newer distributions include the ata_piix.
Some old how-to for my santarosa laptop dealt with this problem,
suggesting to enable ata_piix and/or to compile a newer kernel to have
the full support for the CD/DVD drive.
The problem reported in #419458 was found in 2.6.20. Are you still sure
that this is a problem also for 2.6.29? Two years has gone since that
bugreport.
Could you try to drop drivers-ata-ata_piix-postpone-pata.patch.bz2
patch on next sid/experimental kernel update to see if the problem is
still present (I think no)?
You obviously can say "switch to Ubuntu/Fedora and stop complain", but
I would prefer Debian for many reasons.
I think that Frank Loeffler's point of view is very reasonable.
Can you please consider removing that patch? I'm not alone in this
request and it would be very nice to have a positive feedback.
Best regards,
Lurkos
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