ada,ata and cd?

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:03:04AM +0300, Alexander Motin wrote:
> On 11.07.2012 02:00, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> >On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Steve Kargl
> ><sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> >>On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:41:38PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> >>>I do have all this in the kernel, see below.
> >>>Still if I don't have device ata, I get no cd:
> >>>
> >>
> >>Well, then, leave 'device ata' in your config file.
> >>
> >>Groucho: Doctor, it hurts when I do this.
> >>yada yada
> >
> >     The UPDATING directions don't say this is required, so mav@ might
> >want to know (CCed).
> 
> The UPDATING record tells nothing about removing `device ata`. `options 
> ATA_CAM` only trims it from full ATA infrastructure to a CAM driver for 
> legacy ATA controllers not supported by the new, more advanced drivers 
> ahci(4), mvs(4) and siis(4). ata(4) man page was updated respectively. 
> It is not mandatory any more. You would be free to remove `device ata` 
> from your kernel if you had no such hardware, but obviously you have it.

Thank you for the clarification.

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