On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:32:49PM +, Ken Moffat wrote:
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 08:43:04PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
Can't you just boot with /dev/disk/by-id/ and an initramfs to not have
to worry about such a thing in the future?
Initramfs isn't something I've ever tried, so I'm not
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:16:42PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
There are any number of things you can do when the system is booted, but
the only thing you can do when the system won't boot is use kernel boot
options.
Greg's not removing your option to boot the system using an old kernel
to
Greg KH wrote:
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 02:41:07AM +0100, Rene Herman wrote:
On 13-02-08 01:15, Greg KH wrote:
I'm reworking the pci device list logic (we currently keep all PCI
devices in 2 lists, which isn't the nicest, we should be able to get
away with only 1 list.)
The only bother I've
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:54:55AM +0100, Dirk GOUDERS wrote:
Hi,
I'm reworking the pci device list logic (we currently keep all PCI
devices in 2 lists, which isn't the nicest, we should be able to get
away with only 1 list.)
The only bother I've found so far is the
Hm, so, to summarize:
- you needed this option many years ago to get a box to work properly
- you don't need this today
I would summarize:
- ide=reverse solved certain problems and I am not sure if there are
users who still need this option
So, if the option went away, you
On 13-02-08 05:44, Greg KH wrote:
While details escape me somewhat again at the monment, a few months ago
I was playing around with a PCI Promise IDE controller and needed
ide=reverse to save me from having to switch disks around to still have
a bootable system.
Or some such. Not too clear
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 13:06 +0100, Rene Herman wrote:
On 13-02-08 05:44, Greg KH wrote:
While details escape me somewhat again at the monment, a few months ago
I was playing around with a PCI Promise IDE controller and needed
ide=reverse to save me from having to switch disks around to
On 13-02-08 13:16, Michael Ellerman wrote:
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 13:06 +0100, Rene Herman wrote:
On 13-02-08 05:44, Greg KH wrote:
While details escape me somewhat again at the monment, a few months ago
I was playing around with a PCI Promise IDE controller and needed
ide=reverse to save me
On 13-02-08 13:06, Rene Herman wrote:
On 13-02-08 05:44, Greg KH wrote:
While details escape me somewhat again at the monment, a few months ago
I was playing around with a PCI Promise IDE controller and needed
ide=reverse to save me from having to switch disks around to still have
a bootable
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 08:43:04PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
Can't you just boot with /dev/disk/by-id/ and an initramfs to not have
to worry about such a thing in the future?
Can comebody remind me what the initramfs is for in that situation,
please ? From the little I've noticed, I thought
Hm, so, to summarize:
- you needed this option many years ago to get a box to work properly
- you don't need this today
So, if the option went away, you would not be inconvenienced?
After having reanimated the old system and after comments of other
persons I would not be inconvenienced
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 09:00:15PM +0100, Dirk GOUDERS wrote:
Hm, so, to summarize:
- you needed this option many years ago to get a box to work properly
- you don't need this today
So, if the option went away, you would not be inconvenienced?
After having reanimated the old
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 13:46 +0100, Rene Herman wrote:
On 13-02-08 13:16, Michael Ellerman wrote:
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 13:06 +0100, Rene Herman wrote:
On 13-02-08 05:44, Greg KH wrote:
While details escape me somewhat again at the monment, a few months ago
I was playing around with a
Hi,
I'm reworking the pci device list logic (we currently keep all PCI
devices in 2 lists, which isn't the nicest, we should be able to get
away with only 1 list.)
The only bother I've found so far is the pci_get_device_reverse()
function, it's used in 2 places, IDE and the calgary driver.
I'm
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 04:15:07PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
I'm curious if we really still support the ide=reverse option? It's a
config option that I don't think the distros still enable (SuSE does
not). Is this still needed these days?
My server has a consumer-grade desktop amd64 mobo,
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 02:41:07AM +0100, Rene Herman wrote:
On 13-02-08 01:15, Greg KH wrote:
I'm reworking the pci device list logic (we currently keep all PCI
devices in 2 lists, which isn't the nicest, we should be able to get
away with only 1 list.)
The only bother I've found so far is
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 02:43:29AM +, Ken Moffat wrote:
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 04:15:07PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
I'm curious if we really still support the ide=reverse option? It's a
config option that I don't think the distros still enable (SuSE does
not). Is this still needed
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