-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2008-02-19 at 12:13 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Feb 19, 2008 11:08 AM, Carlos E. R. <> wrote:
...
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
Don't remember reading that written intention, and per Felix 11.0 still has drivers/ide support.
For instance, here: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=309070#c11 And there were more, but that's the one i could find.
You may be remembering a post I made some time ago guessing that drivers/ide support might be dropped in 11.0 if libata was able to be a full replacement by that time.
Right now, I don't remember.
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.
The new libata drivers leveraged the SCSI infrastructure to get a solid leg up. The have a stated goal to eliminate that reliance and build there own infrastructure. Nobody has actually claimed to be working on that afaik, but it is the stated goal. ((Has been since 2.6.0 I believe, so it has been a very long time coming.)
Given that the old drivers/ide is being very actively supported, I suspect Suse will provide us with both options for a while longer. So if it takes another couple years for libata to be removed from the scsi infrastructure and made a full blown subsystem with no scsi limitations, I can live with that. Especially if we have the old drivers/ide option to fall back on.
I hope you are right. Some distros don't support the "classic" driver. However, people using SATA with big disks can't use the classic driver, and others like me can't think of upgrading our hardware to SATA for the time being. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHu5wUtTMYHG2NR9URAoGFAJ9IXbz4uBsIgXgTmDGlsL65/tLZswCcDnOC aTsvL2XHsRhBnJZvyJoPCc0= =ZxLF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org