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>>>>> "lyle" == Lyle Bainbridge <lyle@zevion.com> writes:

Hi

lyle> Still, I can't explain why the scanning of non-existent hwifs was
lyle> ever done this way.  I wonder if this was rectified when the IDE
lyle> subsystem was refactored in the 2.5 kernel.  I know this new IDE
lyle> code was back ported to 2.4.21 also. Let's hope things are a done
lyle> a little bit better in this new code.

Just nick-pitting, it is the other way around:

- 2.4.X (X < 20 ide code)
- 2.4.X Andrew Hendrik code, lately adopted by Alan Cox.
- 2.5.X refactoring (jsut dropped)


Now 2.4.21-preX and 2.5.X (where X is something new), have the Andrew
Hendrik/Alan Cox IDE code.

Later, Juan.

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