linux-kernel - Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

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Date:	Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:26:54 +0200
From:	Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@...el.hist.no>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
CC:	Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@...il.com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	"linux-ide@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Subject: Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>> I just pulled the "pata-drivers" branch of libata-dev.git into the 
>>> "upstream" branch, which means that Alan's libata PATA driver collection 
>>> is now queued for 2.6.19.
>>>
>>> Testing-wise, these PATA drivers have been Andrew Morton's -mm tree for 
>>> many months.  Community-wise, no one posted objections to the PATA 
>>> driver merge plan, when Alan posted it on LKML and linux-ide.
>>>       
>> Too friggin' hard to test Alan's stuff for older IDE here, therefore 
>> ignored so far :(   I have some old hardware that Alan is addressing, 
>> even an old IBM 260MB PCMCIA HDD.
>>
>> I can't see an easy way to arrange multi-boot with different /etc/fstab 
>> depending if I'm trying /dev/hdaX or /dev/sdaX.  Parallel '/' partitions?
>>     
>
> Got udev?
>
> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3802110A_5LR13RN7-partX could be your friend.
>   
Udev fixes this for most filesystems - except / which is cruical.
With / on raid-1 this is not a problem, as md autodetect will
assemble the arrays whether they are on ide or scsi.
But anyone with / on a partition can't easily switch
between sda/hda unless they also use an initrd.  The kernel
itself does not seem to support partition by label. :-(

Helge Hafting

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