-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2008-07-16 at 11:53 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
With 11.0 I assume you still have the option of using the old drivers/IDE interface, correct? So you are ranting about the current state of libata, even though Novell has not forced that on the user unless you choose to use the new driver subsystem (libata).
People with SATA disks are forced to use the new interface, limited to 14 partitions. People with PATA disks can still use the old interface and don't have that limit.
As to libata, Tejun Heo (of Novell) has recently submitted a set of patches to the linux kernel team to address the limit. If accepted, I think the new limit would be 64(?).
Good to know.
I have not seen any ack / nack responses to his patches, so I don't know the likelihood of them being accepted, nor of which vanilla kernel they may get into if/when they are accepted.
More waiting... :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIfn4ttTMYHG2NR9URAum+AJ9Upl1vbTcK9sKCBUeBcB8lzy7rLACbB7u3 zJzRcVsC5LLzXQ2ccb/ZwK4= =0VFm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org