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nforce2 removed from Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) in kernel

Asked by Tomi Urankar

just hacked the latest feisty kernel 2.6.20-16. And it seems that the AMD/NVidia PATA (PATA_AMD) has been removed from the new 'Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers' and the old ATA driver is now used again AMD and nVidia IDE support (BLK_DEV_AMD74XX).
So the system now has /dev/hd? again instead of /dev/sd?.

What are the reasons for this change. Since in kernel 2.6.20-15 the NFORCE2 was using the new Parallel ATA driver.

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Best Markus Thielmann (thielmann) said : 		#1

Well, since it's a question of policies and no technical support issue, it's not the right topic for this answer tracker.

However, this question was also discussed with a few Ubuntu developers at the german LinuxTag (see www.linuxtag.org). As it's a decision of the Linux Kernel maintainer (and for that an upstream issue) they were also quite unaware why this happend exactly.

As Ubuntu changed quite early to UUID identification in fstab, it should not produce unexpected behavior.

So again please respect that this is the wrong place to discuss this decision. You might discuss this issue at kernel.org or ubuntuforums.org.

Thanks for understanding!

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Tomi Urankar (tomi0) said : 		#2

Thanks Markus Thielmann, that solved my question.