Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:51:43 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org> Cc: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: ada,ata and cd? Message-ID: <20120711085143.GA62552@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <4FFD3338.7030500@FreeBSD.org> References: <20120709225210.GA1021@mech-aslap239.men.bris.ac.uk> <20120709233857.GA12046@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <CAGH67wQV-v-7pcURXLB%2BWHrBc2%2Bi%2BwUgGwHGnkpx0Am9s6Y-ow@mail.gmail.com> <20120710214138.GA1025@mech-aslap239.men.bris.ac.uk> <20120710223531.GA96724@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <CAGH67wRg2=se6zWy7nGbuq-vFKwRGV7HzrJVhDfmkj5n%2B7qfxw@mail.gmail.com> <4FFD3338.7030500@FreeBSD.org>
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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@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. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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