Device change for Sil 3112 in latest kernel

Arjan van de Ven arjanv at redhat.com
Sun Aug 8 08:30:22 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 01:27, Jesse Keating wrote:
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> On Saturday 07 August 2004 13:42, Joe Robertson wrote:
> > I haven't installed this kernel yet but if it changes to the correct
> > driver I'd say that it is a good thing!
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> Sure, changing to the 'correct' driver is good, but not when it changes 
> the device structure.  Quite a lot can break, especially if the system 
> in question already has some SCSI devices.  This sort of change should 
> have been either held off until the next version release of FC, or more 
> work should have been done to detect this situation and handle it the 
> least painfull way possible.

this is why we use mount-by-label for everything.
The fact that swap seems not to migrate automatic is a bug in swapon.
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