On Thu, Sep 12 2002, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> ata_attach in linux-2.5.34/drivers/ide/ide.c builds a list of
> IDE drives that do not yet have a device driver bound to them, in case
> ide-disk, ide-scsi, or whatever driver you want to use is not loaded
> yet.
>
> The problem was that ata_attach was adding to the head of
> the list, so the list was being built in reverse order. So, if
> you had two IDE disks, and ide-disk was a loadable module, the
> devfs entries for the disks would be numbered in reverse (the
> first disk would be /dev/discs/disc1, and the second would be
> /dev/discs/disc0).
>
> The follow patch fixes the problem by changing the relevant
> list_add to list_add_tail. Incidentally, the generic code
> in drivers/base/ already does it this way.
Patch looks right (its obviously the right thing to do), thanks
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