I have Ben H's 2.4.9 kernel and I have hacked up something which allows
the 1Gig Microdrive PCCard to work.

What I am wondering is, does my patch stand a chance of making it into
the tree?

>From what I can tell there is already some code to disable the IRQ on
the Card but I guess the 1Gig drive does not honor this.  So I am
disabling the IRQ at the processor.  It is my understanding that the IDE
maintainer will not accept this.  Of course I would put this flag into
the hwif or drive structure and not use a global like this but if I am
going to have to apply this patch for every kernel upgrade I will leave
it this way.

These are against Ben's latest rsync.  Any thoughts, would be
appreciated.

And Thanks so much for all your help again,
Ira Weiny
iweiny@acm.org