From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] ide: fix revision comparison in ide_in_drive_list Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:12:02 +0100 Message-ID: <1150845122.15275.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <200606201452.33925.kirr@mns.spb.ru> <20060620151950.21ad94d6.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:47073 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751467AbWFTW4z (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:56:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20060620151950.21ad94d6.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: Kirill Smelkov , B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.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