[Opinion] [Bug 15324] Random hard freezes with ATAPI drive on an SATA controller

[Ben Collins]

On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 16:57 +0100, Colin Leroy wrote:
> On 13 Dec 2005 at 10h12, Ben Collins wrote:
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> > The problem is that most times these bugs aren't fixed by a trivial
> > patch. 
> 
> Though it can depend in the definition of "most times" ;-)
> 
> It is also very common to "fix" a non-working piece of hardware by just
> adding its vendorId/productId into the driver handling the chip inside. 
> Most often it's a one-liner for USB products, and very little patches
> in other cases.

Out of all the bugs I've closed that were fixed in dapper, but not in
breezy, maybe 1 out of every 20 was that way. And all of those fall into
the "rare" or "unimportant" hw category.

-- 
   Ben Collins <ben.collins at ubuntu.com>
   Developer
   Ubuntu Linux