The patch is against 2.6.22 stable. Frankly, I believe that this merits an exception. Browsing the forums and the launchpad bugs, I have found hundreds of issues resulting from ata_piix's broken handling of IDE drives. People are literally unable to install Ubuntu on perfectly good systems because of this bug. Others cannot use CDROMS, or secondary hard drives. I could ask Tejun exactly why it is not going into 2.6.22, but I know I personally tested it and it fixed the issue without adding any new ones.
Personally, I can see this turning many, many people permanently away from Ubuntu. This bug actually makes IDE devices on many intel systems completely disfunctional. This results in people being unable to boot the livecd, or install from another source, and they have no idea why. This issue was present in edgy and fiesty, but no one was able to track it down. I finally did and after getting no response from the Ubuntu kernel team (I am not a coder myself, especially not a kernel coder), I took it directly to the Linux kernel team. I completely understand issues of not wanting to take something the kernel team wont, but the kernel isnt going to have six more months of completely frustrated users. Sincerely Edward Amsden On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 19:25 +0000, Tim Gardner wrote: > Edward - If this patch is not appropriate for 2.6.22 stable, then its > not going into Gutsy. It will show up in Gutsy+1 next spring. > > ** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.22 (Ubuntu) > Importance: Medium => Undecided > Assignee: Tim Gardner => (unassigned) > Status: In Progress => Won't Fix > -- ata_piix module cannot see cdrom https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/126849 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
