Le Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:32:52 +0200,
Michal Suchanek<michal.suchanek@ruk.cuni.cz> a écrit :
I can think of one reason to exclude these PCI IDs - if the libata
piix driver is used it changes the device name.
I recall the device name changing more than once so there was
probably some time when the driver was built, then people complained
it changes drive names and so it was disabled.
However, the right way to disable it is to not include the driver in
the Debian kernel config, not to break it in the source so that it
cannot work.
Also we have UUID support by now so this issue is moot.
It is also inconsistent with other libata based pata drivers which do
not seem to be crippled this way.
There is one other possible issue which might have caused this patch.
In the early days of libata there was a warning that compiling
drivers for the same device from both ide and libata subsystems may
cause trouble but this too should be resolved by now.
Either way the patch is incorrect and it breaks functionality
available in the upstream kernel for no good reason so it should be
reverted.
Hi,
Does the announce of Bastian about enablings "pata" drivers in 2.6.31
is related to this (see
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-kernel@lists.debian.org/msg46483.html) ?
If true, It's a good suggestion to test next stable Linux kernel !
with regards,
Fred.