From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262309AbULQAgf (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 19:36:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262345AbULQAgf (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 19:36:35 -0500 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:42983 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262309AbULQAfj (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 19:35:39 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.9 ide-probe and indentical old disks. From: Alan Cox To: Paul Gortmaker Cc: Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <41C21086.7030703@muskoka.com> References: <41C21086.7030703@muskoka.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1103239877.21806.42.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 23:31:17 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Iau, 2004-12-16 at 22:47, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > It seems that some old disks don't have a serial number, but ide-probe > now compares serial numbers to determine if a slave disk is just a > ghost image of the primary. This breaks old hardware that has two > identical model disks which don't report serial numbers. The fix seems > as simple as checking for zero length serial numbers before comparing. Already fixed