Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1: IDE compile error

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu May 24 2007 - 20:07:58 EST


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

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