Re: New mailing list for 2.6 Medley RAID (Silicon Image 3112 etc.)BIOS RAID development

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Mon Feb 09 2004 - 11:59:18 EST


Thomas Horsten wrote:
My gut feeling is that if it is provided by the BIOS and reliable
autodetection is possible, it should be autodetected. Why require the user
to discover and supply information that the kernel could easily and
reliably find out by itself? Besides, if there is no autodetection, the

The autodetection will occur, reliably and without additional user information, from initramfs.

As Arjan said, we are moving this type of stuff out of the kernel.

Jeff


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