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.
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