Device change for Sil 3112 in latest kernel

[Joe Robertson]

On Saturday 07 August 2004 10:57, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> always mount by label, and we need to add a "add all swap automatic" 
> thing....
>
> It's a problem in that SATA is going to be driven by /dev/sdX for now,

> but that some cards happen to work mostly kinda via the older legacy 
> driver. It's a bit of a pain during the migration, but it the pain 
> should be finite and limited due to mount-by-label, udev etc etc

On Saturday 07 August 2004 12:38, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Perhaps, but it seems like a rather painful change to make midstream.

> What about introducing a kudzu hack that detects this change and does 
> something accordingly?  Is something like that possible?

Is this change due to using the correct device driver from SIL?
Previous kernels have been using a generic driver rather than the one
recommended by SIL.

I haven't installed this kernel yet but if it changes to the correct
driver I'd say that it is a good thing!

Joe