Re: Linux 2.5.44-ac1

[Alan Cox]

> code within the ide_iomio_dma function in ide-dma.c The problem shows
> itself if you only enable the secondary channel of your IDE controller. 
> I understand this is a strange set up, but it could happen in a machine
> that boots off of SCSI and uses IDE disks for DATA or a CD Burner. I
> came up with a fix, some extra sanity checks before this line in the
> code:

Yes I saw the report. I've not applied it because I want to know how
the slave came not to have a hwif->mate even though it was bios disabled.
There are other things that really mean we should be assigning the hwif
pointers (eg hot plugging)