Re: [PATCH] pata_isapnp: Don't use invalid I/O ports

From: Ondrej Zary
Date: Mon Sep 23 2013 - 13:13:11 EST


On Monday 23 September 2013 15:00:42 Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 04:51:16PM +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> > >Applied to libata/for-3.13.
> >
> > Why only 3.13? Isn't it a simple fix?
>
> Hmmm, maybe, the driver is such low impact, I don't think it matters
> either way; otherwise, it should be marked -stable too. It's a driver
> which shouldn't be enabled by default by distros and I didn't think
> it'd be worthwhile to create any traffic for it. That said, if
> there's a reason this matters, I'd be happy to add -stable and push it
> through ASAP.
>
> Thanks.

At least Debian ships pata_isapnp.ko. Some distros probably stopped building
the driver because it was broken.

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Ondrej Zary
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