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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:24:36 +0100 From: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu> To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com> Cc: linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] ide: fix setting nIEN on idle devices On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 07:57:52PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Sunday 14 December 2008, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > Hi Bart, > > > > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:39:32AM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.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 ? > > The fix results in better handling of unexpected IRQs on serialized IDE > ports. However since unexpected IRQs coming from a device is not something > we should normally see and I don't recall seeing any bugreports that would > be potentially closed by this fix I don't think that there is an urgent need > to backport it (thanks for caring about 2.4.x users anyway!). OK, thanks Bart ! Willy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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