Re: 2.5 'what to expect'

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:33:16 -0400


On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 11:14:53AM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 03:02:19PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> > Enormous block size support.
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> How about "block device size" instead? This made me think of blocks larger
> than page size initially (even though I know that hasn't happened).

Agreed.

> > o ide_scsi is completely broken in 2.5.x. Known problem. If you need it
> > either use 2.4 or fix it 8)
>
> Is this still true? I seem to recall testing a kernel in the 2.5.6x range,
> and it worked. (haven't tested more recent kernels yet -- compiling one now
> though)

IIRC Alan's comment was "this fixes 99% of it"

Jeff

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