Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kernel (89 mails)

[Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 12, Jan Beulich wrote:

> While I questioned whether doing this (for a slim boot time benefit
> this might provide) is really the right thing already in the past, bug
> 766284 points out another reason why this is a bad idea. Can this
> be reverted (in master and 12.2 at least)?

The change below for ata_piix (and other related changes in April 2009) was
made without a bugzilla or fate reference. Whats the practical benefit of
having the drivers built into the kernel? At least ata_piix should be a module
because it also drives emulated hardware (not only in a Xen HVM guest).

Olaf

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commit bdee7838da3086dd3da2083cdaad544700fda143
Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
Date:   Fri Jun 19 17:12:03 2009 -0700

    - Update config files.
      config/i386/pae and config/x86-64/default:
        CONFIG_ATA_PIIX=Y

diff --git a/config/i386/pae b/config/i386/pae
index b88a7e7..778202f 100644
--- a/config/i386/pae
+++ b/config/i386/pae
@@ -1611,7 +1611,7 @@ CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=y
 CONFIG_SATA_SIL24=m
 CONFIG_ATA_SFF=y
 CONFIG_SATA_SVW=m
-CONFIG_ATA_PIIX=m
+CONFIG_ATA_PIIX=y
 CONFIG_SATA_MV=m
 CONFIG_SATA_NV=m
 CONFIG_PDC_ADMA=m
diff --git a/config/x86_64/default b/config/x86_64/default
index c9b9486..b1b2211 100644
--- a/config/x86_64/default
+++ b/config/x86_64/default
@@ -1568,7 +1568,7 @@ CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=y
 CONFIG_SATA_SIL24=m
 CONFIG_ATA_SFF=y
 CONFIG_SATA_SVW=m
-CONFIG_ATA_PIIX=m
+CONFIG_ATA_PIIX=y
 CONFIG_SATA_MV=m
 CONFIG_SATA_NV=m
 CONFIG_PDC_ADMA=m
diff --git a/kernel-source.changes b/kernel-source.changes
index 2e1e6fb..b0a8c8d 100644
--- a/kernel-source.changes
+++ b/kernel-source.changes
@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Jun 20 02:11:50 CEST 2009 - gregkh@xxxxxxx
+
+- Update config files.
+  config/i386/pae and config/x86-64/default:
+       CONFIG_ATA_PIIX=Y
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Jun 20 02:09:25 CEST 2009 - gregkh@xxxxxxx

 - Update config files.

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