Re: [PATCH] 2.5.8 IDE 36

[David Lang]

I could be wrong, it's a 2.1.x kernel that they started with. I thought
that was around the time the fix went in.

David Lang

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, David S. Miller wrote:

> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:00:55 -0700 (PDT)
> From: David S. Miller <[e-mail]>
> To: [e-mail]
> Cc: [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
>      [e-mail], [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.8 IDE 36
>
>    From: David Lang <[e-mail]>
>    Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:04:02 -0700 (PDT)
>
>    On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
>
>    > Because for Linux filesystems it was decided some time ago (after people
>    > HAD huge byteswap problems) that ext2 is always LE, etc, etc. So
>    > filesystems are supposed to be the same on every system.
>
>    In the case of Tivo they are useing a kernel from the time before the fix
>    went in so even their ext2 partitions are incorrect (not to mention their
>    other partitions that aren't ext2)
>
> That's absurd.  I made the fix 6 years ago, I doubt they are using a
> kernel older than that.
>