linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1: IDE compile error

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Date:	Thu, 24 May 2007 17:05:33 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
CC:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1: IDE compile error

Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> hd.c can drive MFM and RLL disks and drivers/ide cannot. Although it
> really wants burying further down the config tree the ability to read MFM
> and RLL disks when recovering ancient data is useful and people do
> actually use this driver now and then rescuing stuff like twenty year old
> datasets.
> 
> It thus needs fixing not removing.
> 

Opinions, anyone (especially Alan):

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-newsetup.git;a=commitdiff;h=369f16fdd423d79640c4390915e6ab71189cb497

	-hpa
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