Re: what happened to adjustkernel?

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Martin S. Weber wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 01:50:52PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 04:19:59PM -0800, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
> > > I'm fishing through the CVS logs. I was just using it last week, so I'm
> > > not sure why it's gone.
> >
> > I removed it since PR 17761 claims it was functionally broken since
> > 2002 -- is that not correct?
>
> The last times I tried it it left out some intermediate busses all
> the time, but those were easy to add (didn't try to fix it as I
> don't like (looking at) perl). E.g. atapibus at, atabus at were
> always lacking. But these are a) pretty easily added manually once
> you know that or b) shouldn't be too hard to fix for either the
> original author (if he still can read it) or any other perl coder?
>
> Removing it seems a bit brutal to me (but also a very understandable
> indication that you don't want to mess with perl either :)).

It's broken, but it's a better starting point than just guessing at what
to comment out in GENERIC. I've not tried dmassage, but can't you just
add it back saying that it's a starting point for kernel customization?
I use it fairly often when I get a new system.

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