From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 11 08:51:45 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76B24106566C; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 08:51:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirj.bris.ac.uk (dirj.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 224298FC0C; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 08:51:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ncsd.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.59] helo=ncs.bris.ac.uk) by dirj.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Sose8-0000ss-7T; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:51:44 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by ncs.bris.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Sose7-0003vu-Sk; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:51:43 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q6B8pheI062590; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:51:43 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bris.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q6B8phd6062589; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:51:43 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bris.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bris.ac.uk using -f Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:51:43 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: Alexander Motin Message-ID: <20120711085143.GA62552@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Alexander Motin , Anton Shterenlikht , Garrett Cooper , Steve Kargl , freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <20120709225210.GA1021@mech-aslap239.men.bris.ac.uk> <20120709233857.GA12046@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20120710214138.GA1025@mech-aslap239.men.bris.ac.uk> <20120710223531.GA96724@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <4FFD3338.7030500@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4FFD3338.7030500@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: Garrett Cooper , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Anton Shterenlikht , Steve Kargl Subject: Re: ada,ata and cd? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 08:51:45 -0000 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 > > 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