[Mageia-dev] Why is AHCI statically compiled into kernel?

Tue Mar 5 18:11:44 CET 2013

'Twas brillig, and R James at 05/03/13 16:20 did gyre and gimble:
+> I remember when PATA (IDE) drivers were statically compiled into the
+> kernel, then we went to modular IDE which I liked because modprobe
+> ordering could be controlled. (When dealing with parity RAID, its nice
+> to have logical drive enumeration because SATA ports don't have UUID
+> labels.)
+
+Anything that relies on ordering is just broken by design. We need to
+handle things gracefully regardless of the order they are detected. This
+is why UUIDs are the defacto method for filesystem identification these
+days and why in mga4 we'll likely switch to a consistent naming scheme
+for networking devices too.
+
+Also "modprobe ordering" is increasingly not true either as many modules
+are automatically loaded when the hardware is present.
+
+Col
+
+
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