Re: [PATCH] ide: fix revision comparison in ide_in_drive_list

[Alan Cox]

Ar Maw, 2006-06-20 am 15:19 -0700, ysgrifennodd Andrew Morton:
> hm.  This seems...  rather serious.  I assume that in most cases, the
> firmware rev which we have in the table (eg "24.09P07") is a full-string
> match for the string which the drive returned.

They are full matches as far as I can see so it should be ok, plus the
DMA blacklist is mostly hardware that went out ten or more years ago.
Even if it did mis-trigger we'd be blacklisting extra firmware revs of
iffy hardware so that isn't do worrying.

Alan

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