Tejun Heo wrote: ..
Modify EH such that it assumes no device is attached if both flavors of IDENTIFY are aborted by the device. There really isn't much point in retrying when the device actively aborts the commands.
.. And thus dies support for the few very early IDE drives that lacked IDENTIFY. R.I.P. :) (not that they would have worked with libata in the first place) Acked-by: Mark Lord <mlord@xxxxxxxxx> -- 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