Hi Bart,

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:39:32AM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] ide: fix setting nIEN on idle devices
> 
> Fix do_ide_request() to operate on previous device / port instead of
> the current one.  The original code was wrong since at least Feb 2002
> (2.4.0 timeframe).

What could be the impact of this bug ? Should I backport your fix to 2.4 ?

Thanks,
Willy