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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] ide: Fix use of paired device
Hello.

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> At least 2 drivers (siimage and cs5535) have a bug where they use
> the construct:

> ide_drive_t *pair = &hwif->drives[drive->dn ^ 1];

> To access the other drive in a master/slave pair. This is bogus
> because drive->dn is not the unit number, but the global drive
> number, thus can be 2 & 3 for ide1, 4 & 5 for ide2 etc...

Huh? With drive->dn calculated as:

for (unit = 0; unit < MAX_DRIVES; ++unit) {
ide_drive_t *drive = &hwif->drives[unit];
drive->dn = (hwif->channel ? 2 : 0) + unit;

(with MAX_DRIVES always being 2) how comes it may be 4 or 5?!

> Please apply to 2.6.24 if no objection.

I object. :-)

MBR, Sergei
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