From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753127AbYLNHGf (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:06:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750974AbYLNHGZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:06:25 -0500 Received: from 1wt.eu ([62.212.114.60]:1677 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750879AbYLNHGZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:06:25 -0500 Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 08:06:21 +0100 From: Willy Tarreau To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] ide: fix setting nIEN on idle devices Message-ID: <20081214070620.GB31552@1wt.eu> References: <20081213233925.4653.58008.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <20081213233932.4653.97088.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081213233932.4653.97088.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Bart, On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:39:32AM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz > Subject: [PATCH] ide: fix setting nIEN on idle devices > > Fix do_ide_request() to operate on previous device / port instead of > the current one. The original code was wrong since at least Feb 2002 > (2.4.0 timeframe). What could be the impact of this bug ? Should I backport your fix to 2.4 ? Thanks, Willy