In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brooks Davis writes:
: You don't need to update /dev though. As long as you don't change
: anything else, a 4.0 kernel will work just fine with a 3.x /dev and
: userland (other then top and friends). You can delay updating /dev
: until later as the ata code will deal with wd devices as well as ad
: devices.
This is incorrect information. If you ever have a dirty filesystem,
the new fsck will not be able to fix that and you'll be unable to
mount that filesystem w/o reboot, iirc.
: I built my current laptop configuration by installing 3.3 from
: CD, cvsuping to 4.0, installing a new kernel, and then building and
: installing world. I looked at UPDATING. I think it's wrong. It should
: have you test a new kernel before rebuilding /dev. You should do it,
: but like the scsi disk renaming it isn't mandatory, at least for now.
: I think the problem is that UPDATING is a bit to optomistic about
: things. If you have a system that works with the new ata driver it's
: correct, but otherwise it's a good way to waste your system. :-(
Alternative, accurate, text welcome :-)
Warner
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