> > No point obsoleting the old ones. By the time being obsolete turns into > > being anything like "gone", the hardware won't exist. It just causes > > We don't have stable rules for kernel parameters. We have fifteen years of traditional, common sense and the like > I'll make warnings more verbose, i.e. > > 'please use "ali14xx.probe" boot option instead of obsoleted "ide0=probe"' Just leave the old option in as well, nobody needs to care that you are changing it. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html