-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2008-02-19 at 09:50 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
At least for now YOU are in control, not the kernel devs.
They have taken nothing away and the traditional IDE drivers are being very actively supported. Suse has them in their kernels for 10.3 (11.0 I don't know about).
The kernel devs added a parallel development track a copy years ago, so now there are 2 drivers for the vast majority of PATA (IDE) controllers. It is YOUR choice whether you use the traditional set or the new set, nobody else is making decisions for you.
So if you don't like the new way, use the old one. (As described in the release notes from day one.)
Obviously, SUSE (Novell) had to make a choice of what the default driver set for 10.3 should be. They choose the leading edge set. That is pretty consistent with the opensuse philosophy from what I've seen. I for one am very happy to see them moving forward, and if I need extra partitions, I can add a boot flag, update my grub setup, and fstab entries.
I really don't understand the gripping about 10.3 in this respect. If suse ever drops the traditional drivers/ide support, that is the time to complain. And those complaints should occur during the alpha/beta process, not 6 months after the product is released.
We are not complaining about 10.3 now. We did complain about 10.3 beta when it was the time: it is on record, if you want to check (bugzillas included). What we complain now is that the written intention is/was to remove the "traditional set" for 11.0 As for the new method being "leading edge"... en fin. Not in one respect. They could have devised a really new device node set and drivers, with neither the limitations of scsi nor ata. They choose compatibility with one set against the other set of device nodes. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHuv8KtTMYHG2NR9URAlRGAJ9edNz9MdSOQYZCRsGWFCV3jORbYACdGpjc BjVBXYE6bBQpvd07lcV1k9U= =xD/O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org