Hi,
currently TW stable and master branches have the core SCSI and AHCI
code built-in, i.e. CONFIG_SCSI=y, CONFIG_ATA=y and
CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=y.
IIRC, this was set so in *decades* ago, and the reason was "just for
booting faster"; at that time, making it built-in had measurable
difference. Meanwhile, it's no longer issue with modern hardware.
And, more importantly, such built-in config has a side-effect as we've
seen recently at:
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215182
where TW kernel can't boot properly because of the failure of SSD
probe due to the built-in SCSI / AHCI drivers.
Does anyone object to switch back to modules? This will align with
SLE configuration, and it automagically "fixes" such bugs.
thanks,
Takashi
