Rob OpenSuSE wrote: > 2008/12/9 Mark Lord <liml@xxxxxx>: >> Rob OpenSuSE wrote: >> There are tons of PCI add-on cards still out there with these chips, >> and they will continue to work fine so long as PCI slots >> and PATA drives exist. So we may as well ensure Linux does the Right Things (tm). > > Yes, my point was in support of pragmatism; so that new kernel builds > and distro installs can have a chance to succeed in boxes with these > cards used, without opening case, reconfiguring, and finding special > boot paramters. Those cards need working code now, not next year. So > "The Right Thing (tm)" would be bad, if it caused perfectly capable > kit to be non-functioning, whilst perfection is under discussion and > development. I already pushed those patches into openSUSE and in one form or another it will make into upstream and other distros, so no worries. >> Nice work, Tejun! > > Seconded! If you are the Mark who sent the card, thanks to you to > from me to. Yeap, he's the Mark who sends me old and weird hardwares from time to time. :-) Thanks. -- tejun -- 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
