From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: pcmcia - spot slave decode flaws (for testing)
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:08:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070223120845.19203fcb@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45DEC5A0.7050107@garzik.org>
> Code looks OK. Not applied due to "for testing" note.
>
> General comment: it might be nice to do this in the core, just as a
> sanity check for a variety of problems, past, present and future.
We tried that with old IDE and all hell broke loose. Lots of virtual disk
stuff and raid volumes have non-unique serial numbers. We even found a
case of identically serial numbered Maxtor drives.
It needs to stay in pcmcia, which is the only place we've seen the
duplication.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-23 11:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-20 18:18 [PATCH]: pcmcia - spot slave decode flaws (for testing) Alan
2007-02-23 10:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-02-23 12:08 ` Alan [this message]
2007-02-24 21:23 ` Eric D. Mudama
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2006-12-17 12:27 [BUG KERNEL 2.6.20-rc1] ftp: get or put stops during file-transfer Komuro
2006-12-17 4:02 ` Al Viro
[not found] ` <20070211101537.e40fa309.komurojun-mbn@nifty.com>
2007-02-11 2:40 ` [BUG] PATA_PCMCIA does not work Komuro
2007-02-18 2:09 ` Komuro
2007-02-21 15:37 ` Alan
2007-03-21 1:56 ` [PATCH]: pcmcia - spot slave decode flaws (for testing) Komuro
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