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Andrey Borzenkov 464f04c9e9 x86: fix ghost EDD devices in /sys again
> This is regression but old enough. Apparently I had for whatever reasons
> EDD turned off till recently. This is 2.6.27-rc5 just in case.
>
> In 2006 I fixed ghost devices due to buggy BIOS:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=114087765422490&w=2
>
> Later edd.S has been rewritten in C, and apparently this patch has been
> lost:
>
> {pts/1}% ls /sys/firmware/edd
> int13_dev80/  int13_dev84/  int13_dev88/  int13_dev8c/
> int13_dev81/  int13_dev85/  int13_dev89/  int13_dev8d/
> int13_dev82/  int13_dev86/  int13_dev8a/  int13_dev8e/
> int13_dev83/  int13_dev87/  int13_dev8b/  int13_dev8f/
>
> But I have just a single disk. This is the same system BTW.

Some BIOSes do not always set CF on error before return from int13.
The patch adds additional check for status being zero (AH == 0).

This was fixed for edd.S in
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=114087765422490&w=2, but lost
again when edd.S was rewritten in C.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06 16:30:36 +02:00
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alpha Merge branch 'generic-ipi' into generic-ipi-for-linus 2008-07-15 21:55:59 +02:00
arm Merge branch 'generic-ipi' into generic-ipi-for-linus 2008-07-15 21:55:59 +02:00
avr32 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc 2008-07-16 15:17:52 -07:00
blackfin Merge commit 'v2.6.26' into bkl-removal 2008-07-14 15:29:34 -06:00
cris Merge branch 'generic-ipi' into generic-ipi-for-linus 2008-07-15 21:55:59 +02:00
frv
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ia64 fix build error of arch/ia64/kvm/* 2008-07-17 09:16:31 -07:00
m32r
m68k Merge commit 'v2.6.26' into bkl-removal 2008-07-14 15:29:34 -06:00
m68knommu Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 2008-07-16 17:25:46 -07:00
mips Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 2008-07-16 17:25:46 -07:00
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parisc Merge branch 'generic-ipi' into generic-ipi-for-linus 2008-07-15 21:55:59 +02:00
powerpc powerpc/ep8248e: Fix compile problem if !CONFIG_FS_ENET 2008-07-16 11:43:48 -07:00
s390 [S390] Fix stacktrace compile bug. 2008-07-17 17:22:09 +02:00
sh Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 2008-07-16 17:25:46 -07:00
sparc Merge commit 'v2.6.26' into bkl-removal 2008-07-14 15:29:34 -06:00
sparc64 Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 2008-07-16 17:25:46 -07:00
um Merge branch 'generic-ipi' into generic-ipi-for-linus 2008-07-15 21:55:59 +02:00
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x86 x86: fix ghost EDD devices in /sys again 2008-09-06 16:30:36 +02:00
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