On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 22:37:16 +0100 Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:19:31PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Since I assume that qemu code base is wide spread and if a workaround > > > is not too ugly I think it would be nice if the kernel handled that. > > > > Qemu behaves exactly the same way as a broken device in a situation where > > data corruption may occur. It would be extremely bad to remove sanity > > checking in storage subsystems just to deal with a silly bug in an > > emulator. > > It could just a quirk e.g. matching on the ID string? Qemu has been fixed for months, if they are slack about releases or it only got fixed in one of the gazillion branches of qemu that's their problem. That code is so horrible to look at I doubt that is the only problem and I did seriously look into it before deciding that qemu was just to gross to even work out what the bugs were. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
