[ale] DMA problem solved

[Greg Freemyer]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
> Jim Kinney wrote:
>   > The old hdx stuff is gone fully by 2.6.24.
>
>  I'm glad to hear that! It's quite a pain on Ubuntu's 2.6.22 that some
>  pata drives appear as hdx and others appear as sdx.

The 2.6.24 comment must be distro dependent.  Definitely not true of
the vanilla kernel.  Its removal has not even been discussed on the
lkml ide mailing list yet.  And it is very actively maintained.  I
suspect it will be around at least another year or two.

Greg
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