On 10 Jan, Andrew McMillan wrote:
> [...] Ordering of the drives is also
> unpredictable, hence I have to grep /proc/partitions to work out what my
> partition names are to mount them in the appropriate places.
This is actually not different to kernel 2.4 and will not change
in foreseeable future. The devlabel utility addresses the issue.
(I did not test it yet myself.)
> [...] the firewire drivers won't gracefully handle
> removal of my PCMCIA card in my laptop. I have to unload all the
> firewire modules first, and only then can I pull the card out. Most
> PCMCIA cards you can pull the card, and then unload the modules.
This is also the same with kernel 2.4. The exact behaviour, e.g.
stalled ohci1394 driver versus immediate complete kernel lockup
might vary acording to the exact system setup.
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