>>>>> "lyle" == Lyle Bainbridge <lyle@zevion.com> writes: Hi lyle> Still, I can't explain why the scanning of non-existent hwifs was lyle> ever done this way. I wonder if this was rectified when the IDE lyle> subsystem was refactored in the 2.5 kernel. I know this new IDE lyle> code was back ported to 2.4.21 also. Let's hope things are a done lyle> a little bit better in this new code. Just nick-pitting, it is the other way around: - 2.4.X (X < 20 ide code) - 2.4.X Andrew Hendrik code, lately adopted by Alan Cox. - 2.5.X refactoring (jsut dropped) Now 2.4.21-preX and 2.5.X (where X is something new), have the Andrew Hendrik/Alan Cox IDE code. Later, Juan. -- In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different -- Larry McVoy