Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Feb 2004 20:25:17 GMT | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: Errors on 2th ide channel of promise ultra100 tx2 |
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Quote from Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>: > 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.
Ironically, you can add as many bad ideas as you like, but not remove them :-)
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