Re: autodetection

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On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 11:50 AM, Andreas Klauer
<Andreas.Klauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 11:16:15AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> CONFIG_MD_AUTODETECT=y
>>
>> All of the md drivers are modules, not built-in. I'm not sure if that
>> makes a difference. Should CONFIG_MD_AUTODETECT be y? Or is it a no
>> op?
>
> Autodetect is an obscure feature. It's deprecated in any case,
> and even under best conditions, only works for legacy raid (0.90)
> on partitions declared to be of raid type. Hopefully no one is
> using that anymore, it's limited to 2TB members among other things.

Yep, this much I understand from past on list conversations.

What I'm not clear on is the wiki language says the code is actually
deleted. So is it deleted? And if so, what does CONFIG_MD_AUTODETECT
do?





-- 
Chris Murphy



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