From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1: IDE compile error
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 17:05:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4656284D.7080709@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070524115549.01c0e1ca@the-village.bc.nu>
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> hd.c can drive MFM and RLL disks and drivers/ide cannot. Although it
> really wants burying further down the config tree the ability to read MFM
> and RLL disks when recovering ancient data is useful and people do
> actually use this driver now and then rescuing stuff like twenty year old
> datasets.
>
> It thus needs fixing not removing.
>
Opinions, anyone (especially Alan):
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-newsetup.git;a=commitdiff;h=369f16fdd423d79640c4390915e6ab71189cb497
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-25 0:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20070515201914.16944e04.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-16 18:55 ` 2.6.22-rc1-mm1: IDE compile error Adrian Bunk
2007-05-23 23:45 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-05-24 10:55 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-24 18:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-25 0:05 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-05-25 0:14 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-25 0:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-25 0:38 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-25 0:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-25 14:19 ` Alan Cox
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