linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ide: update Kconfig text to mark as deprecated

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Date:	Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:18:39 +0100
From:	Martin Steigerwald <Martin@...htvoll.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, hancockrwd@...il.com,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ide: update Kconfig text to mark as deprecated

Am Freitag 30 Oktober 2009 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> Am Freitag 30 Oktober 2009 schrieb David Miller:
> > And yes I absolutely do consider it too onerous to change my fstab
> > because I have to (or want to be able to) go back to older kernels
> > which will only have the IDE stack enabled.  I refuse to have to
> > monkey around with my fstab every time I want to go back and forth.
> 
> You don't need to when you used UUID or LABEL - I prefer the later
>  cause  its more readable. Actually I never quite understood while one
>  would want to use dynamic things like /dev/hdd or /dev/sdb in the
>  first place. Thats for me not that much better than C: or D:. Connect
>  your harddisks differently and you are screwed.

One thing to add: If you use a InitRD, you can use UUID or LABEL in GRUB 1 
as well. I believe GRUB 2 at leasts supports UUID out of the box, but 
better check this, before relying on my word.

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Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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