Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> we can look into updating it when a change makes it necessary. > > Sorry, this doesn't work. Such change may be artificially delayed to the last > moment before the release (as it was the case with ata_piix pretending to > pick > up support for intel IDE controllers but actually failing for laptop drives > with > a host-protected area). Nobody will test it, and the end result would be a > faulty CD that, e.g., doesn't boot at all or doesn't see a hard disk for a > large > percentage of users.
I'm sorry, but I don't buy your argument. How often would the above problem arise? The current version works. You are arguing about what could happen, whatever the probability of a major issue arising. It might happen, but IMO, it is not likely. Perfect is the enemy of good enough. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
