From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Raffaele BELARDI <raffaele.belardi@st.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] PATA vs SATA kernel driver (was: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore)
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:59:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1888856.gDQs8MronJ@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50ED3EF5.1090800@st.com>
Am Mittwoch, 9. Januar 2013, 10:57:09 schrieb Raffaele BELARDI:
> On 01/09/2013 10:01 AM, Dale wrote:
> > < > ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support **(DEPRECATED)**
>
> Yes, I know it is unmaintained and deprecated, I'm looking for a
> rational reason to move to the SATA driver when the PATA one works well
> with my old drives. The PATA drives are probably going to die before the
> PATA driver is moved out of the kernel (if ever) so I might as well wait
> for the switch till I need new hardware, or not?
>
> raffaele
because every day there are changes in the kernel that might affect those old,
deprecated and mostly unmaintained drivers. It is pretty certain that you will
run into problems.
--
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-09 7:16 [gentoo-user] PATA vs SATA kernel driver (was: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore) Raffaele BELARDI
2013-01-09 9:01 ` Dale
2013-01-09 9:32 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-01-09 9:59 ` Dale
2013-01-09 10:24 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-01-09 18:58 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-01-09 22:42 ` felix
2013-01-10 21:41 ` Walter Dnes
2013-01-10 22:14 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-01-24 3:42 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2013-01-09 9:57 ` Raffaele BELARDI
2013-01-09 10:35 ` Dale
2013-01-09 18:59 ` Volker Armin Hemmann [this message]
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