From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1: IDE compile error Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 17:05:33 -0700 Message-ID: <4656284D.7080709@zytor.com> References: <20070515201914.16944e04.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070516185552.GA4086@stusta.de> <200705240145.38055.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20070524115549.01c0e1ca@the-village.bc.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:60327 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750805AbXEYAHq (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2007 20:07:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070524115549.01c0e1ca@the-village.bc.nu> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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