AHCI driver progress report - hot-swap PM and parallel probe!

Justin C. Sherrill justin at shiningsilence.com
Sat Jun 13 16:31:33 PDT 2009


On Sat, June 13, 2009 5:40 pm, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     I would like to stick the AHCI driver into GENERIC and go with it for
>     the release.  The only sticking point is that people who update and
>     who have AHCI devices will have to rename their disks in /etc/fstab and
>     /etc/rc.conf (and maybe even /boot/loader.conf if you use a
>     BOOT+HAMMER setup).

Can we (and by we I mean you) have an explicit summary in the release
notes for 2.4 that describes what to do if this happens?  I hate to have
something that can render someone's computer unbootable just by upgrading,
without a clear way to deal with it.






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