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SubjectPatch: linux-2.5.34/drivers/ide/ide.c was building list of drives in reverse order
	ata_attach in linux-2.5.34/drivers/ide/ide.c builds a list of
IDE drives that do not yet have a device driver bound to them, in case
ide-disk, ide-scsi, or whatever driver you want to use is not loaded
yet.

The problem was that ata_attach was adding to the head of
the list, so the list was being built in reverse order. So, if
you had two IDE disks, and ide-disk was a loadable module, the
devfs entries for the disks would be numbered in reverse (the
first disk would be /dev/discs/disc1, and the second would be
/dev/discs/disc0).

The follow patch fixes the problem by changing the relevant
list_add to list_add_tail. Incidentally, the generic code
in drivers/base/ already does it this way.

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--- linux-2.5.34/drivers/ide/ide.c 2002-09-09 10:35:06.000000000 -0700
+++ linux/drivers/ide/ide.c 2002-09-12 04:30:20.000000000 -0700
@@ -2478,11 +2478,11 @@
if (driver->owner)
__MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT(driver->owner);
}
spin_unlock(&drivers_lock);
spin_lock(&drives_lock);
- list_add(&drive->list, &ata_unused);
+ list_add_tail(&drive->list, &ata_unused);
spin_unlock(&drives_lock);
return 1;
}

static int ide_ioctl (struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
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