diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-gd.c b/drivers/ide/ide-gd.c
index c4ffd48..70ea876 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-gd.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-gd.c
@@ -298,6 +298,12 @@
 		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 @@
 	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;