From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B7021383A4 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 19:02:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 01C0621C0DA; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 19:02:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-f49.google.com (mail-la0-f49.google.com [209.85.215.49]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 986D921C098 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 18:59:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f49.google.com with SMTP id fk20so2202063lab.22 for ; Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:59:53 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type; bh=ZSPLkKLFbcG+isz3A+MhqOLtdKm5SHIQ687/6AovlTM=; b=Rylxzlp5+LxPBxtpw/doXv/zpM1mAGb6D0GUH5U/DppB4QMayA5HI/id+FUYu81s9h rgThN01czpYAgioFLKaNQC4AH7yGlertM/v9XOESLsC7BY3CVjMHhrpYVlF3bseAL1m5 9CSFam1Yc36uooQBjDKrvXPkb4UQLzJNYHplqClzvOgbE9/RfQDpjsUjtuErxd9muO8S CTNpxUiEcfNwdMEQ9viDpbE86TEzQP125HfO6BcE8lJDQM6Sro0TSsBMz+ABVCD0pWwt 8+14+UTFZgxCp5wCdb4pmJ9pRZ/cLltr7R6Yg+RSb0zcaAhiXUrfGJoMOcLmIUAChkkd Yo0w== X-Received: by 10.152.125.240 with SMTP id mt16mr66183278lab.17.1357757993837; Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:59:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localnet (p4FC603C8.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [79.198.3.200]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fj2sm24452919lbb.6.2013.01.09.10.59.52 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:59:53 -0800 (PST) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Raffaele BELARDI 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 Message-ID: <1888856.gDQs8MronJ@localhost> User-Agent: KMail/4.9.5 (Linux/3.4.24; KDE/4.9.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <50ED3EF5.1090800@st.com> References: <50ED1969.3010309@st.com> <50ED3205.5050803@gmail.com> <50ED3EF5.1090800@st.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: c07efbe6-bc53-45eb-b140-1d1e48d67bd8 X-Archives-Hash: 61263b29d5af68dab328f03f998fde09 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. -- #163933