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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>,
	B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ide: fix revision comparison in ide_in_drive_list
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:12:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1150845122.15275.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060620151950.21ad94d6.akpm@osdl.org>

Ar Maw, 2006-06-20 am 15:19 -0700, ysgrifennodd Andrew Morton:
> hm.  This seems...  rather serious.  I assume that in most cases, the
> firmware rev which we have in the table (eg "24.09P07") is a full-string
> match for the string which the drive returned.

They are full matches as far as I can see so it should be ok, plus the
DMA blacklist is mostly hardware that went out ten or more years ago.
Even if it did mis-trigger we'd be blacklisting extra firmware revs of
iffy hardware so that isn't do worrying.

Alan


  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-20 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-20 10:52 [PATCH] ide: fix revision comparison in ide_in_drive_list Kirill Smelkov
2006-06-20 22:19 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-20 23:12   ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-06-21  6:17     ` Kirill Smelkov
2006-06-21 11:44       ` Alan Cox
2006-06-21 13:11         ` Kirill Smelkov

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