Re: [PATCH]: pcmcia - spot slave decode flaws (for testing)

[Alan]

> 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
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