From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261875AbUB1QFk (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2004 11:05:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261873AbUB1QFk (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2004 11:05:40 -0500 Received: from cpc1-cwma1-5-0-cust4.swan.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.4]:25516 "EHLO dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261876AbUB1QFj (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2004 11:05:39 -0500 Subject: Re: Errors on 2th ide channel of promise ultra100 tx2 From: Alan Cox To: andersen@codepoet.org Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Marcelo Tosatti , John Bradford , Erik van Engelen , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20040228012630.GA3074@codepoet.org> References: <403F2178.70806@vanE.nl> <200402272114.23108.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <20040227224431.GB984@codepoet.org> <200402280220.22324.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <20040228012630.GA3074@codepoet.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1077984093.31248.0.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-7) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 16:01:34 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sad, 2004-02-28 at 01:26, Erik Andersen wrote: > > Now I remember why this wasn't applied. > > It breaks braindamaged HDIO_GETGEO_BIG_RAW ioctl > > (because changes way drive->cyls is calculated). > > We workaround-ed it in 2.6 by removing this ioctl. :) > > I think we really should do the same for 2.4. > > I did just that but it was rejected by Alan Cox... > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0308.2/0193.html You can't go around randomly removing bad ideas during a stable tree. Sucks but true. Alan