> Code looks OK. Not applied due to "for testing" note. > > General comment: it might be nice to do this in the core, just as a > sanity check for a variety of problems, past, present and future.
We tried that with old IDE and all hell broke loose. Lots of virtual disk stuff and raid volumes have non-unique serial numbers. We even found a case of identically serial numbered Maxtor drives. It needs to stay in pcmcia, which is the only place we've seen the duplication. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html