ide driver bug fix for the error message "hda: bad special flag 0x03"

[Shen, JT]

diff -Naur linux-2.4.19-10/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c linux-2.4.19-11/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
--- linux-2.4.19-10/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c	Fri Jun 21 15:14:46 2002
+++ linux-2.4.19-11/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c	Mon Jun 24 15:19:15 2002
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@
 				type = ide_cdrom;	/* Early cdrom models used zero */
 			case ide_cdrom:
 				drive->removable = 1;
+				drive->special.all = 0;
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC
 				/* kludge for Apple PowerBook internal zip */
 				if (!strstr(id->model, "CD-ROM") && strstr(id->model, "ZIP")) {

Andre,

Above is the patch that will fix the bug that when a user issue the command:

   cat /proc/ide/hda/identify

the message "hda: bad special flag 0x03" gets written to the system log.  This will happen because the .config file that RedHat uses to create the kernel image has the flag CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=m.  Thus in ide.c code, it won't call ide_cdrom_reinit(). So for CDROM the special flag is left as 0x03.

The solution is to set the special flags to 0 when it is discovered as cdrom in ide-probe.c.

Let me know if you have any question.

Thanks,

JT