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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kill ide-geometry.c, fix boot problems
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On Iau, 2003-04-17 at 00:00, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> But of course, it is easy to add some heuristic code.
> I would prefer to keep such code out of the vanilla kernel,
> but a vendor might want it.
> 
> [And note that todays patch did not remove any DM detection.
> This discussion is 37 patch levels late.]


For Linus tree maybe, but my tree never got rid of the stuff because
I never agreed with you.