Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 08:37:55 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, damir.perisa@solnet.ch, akpm@osdl.org,
       Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.14-rc5-mm1 - ide-cs broken!
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On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 03:14:53PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Iau, 2005-11-03 at 23:19 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > Hint, gentoo, debian, and suse don't have this problem, so you might
> > want to look at their rules files for how to work around this.  Look for
> > this line:
> > 
> > # skip accessing removable ide devices, cause the ide drivers are horrible broken
> 
> 
> I was under the impression people had eventually decided the media
> change patch someone was proposed was ok after investigating one or two
> cases I knew of that turned out to be borked hardware ?

I was not aware of that, I'd be glad to see that patch go into the tree
to help others who have run into this over the years.

Hm, have a pointer to the latest proposed patch for this anywhere?

thanks,

greg k-h
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