Re: Errors on 2th ide channel of promise ultra100 tx2

Alan Cox
2004-02-28T16:05:40Z

On Sad, 2004-02-28 at 01:26, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > Now I remember why this wasn't applied.
> > It breaks braindamaged HDIO_GETGEO_BIG_RAW ioctl
> > (because changes way drive->cyls is calculated).
> > We workaround-ed it in 2.6 by removing this ioctl. :)
> > I think we really should do the same for 2.4.
>
> I did just that but it was rejected by Alan Cox...
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0308.2/0193.html

You can't go around randomly removing bad ideas during a stable
tree. Sucks but true.

Alan