1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-gd.c b/drivers/ide/ide-gd.c
index c4ffd4888939..70ea8763567d 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-gd.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-gd.c
@@ -298,6 +298,12 @@ static unsigned int ide_gd_check_events(struct gendisk *disk,
                 return 0;
         }
 
+        /*
+         * The following is used to force revalidation on the first open on
+         * removeable devices, and never gets reported to userland as
+         * genhd->events is 0.  This is intended as removeable ide disk
+         * can't really detect MEDIA_CHANGE events.
+         */
         ret = drive->dev_flags & IDE_DFLAG_MEDIA_CHANGED;
         drive->dev_flags &= ~IDE_DFLAG_MEDIA_CHANGED;
 
@@ -413,7 +419,6 @@ static int ide_gd_probe(ide_drive_t *drive)
         if (drive->dev_flags & IDE_DFLAG_REMOVABLE)
                 g->flags = GENHD_FL_REMOVABLE;
         g->fops = &ide_gd_ops;
-        g->events = DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE;
         add_disk(g);
         return 0;