diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c b/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
index fd1e11799137..a5ec5a7cb381 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
@@ -1782,7 +1782,6 @@ static int ide_cd_probe(ide_drive_t *drive)
 	ide_cd_read_toc(drive, &sense);
 	g->fops = &idecd_ops;
 	g->flags |= GENHD_FL_REMOVABLE;
-	g->events = DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE;
 	add_disk(g);
 	return 0;
 
diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-cd_ioctl.c b/drivers/ide/ide-cd_ioctl.c
index 2a6bc50e8a41..02caa7dd51c8 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-cd_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-cd_ioctl.c
@@ -79,6 +79,12 @@ int ide_cdrom_drive_status(struct cdrom_device_info *cdi, int slot_nr)
 	return CDS_DRIVE_NOT_READY;
 }
 
+/*
+ * ide-cd always generates media changed event if media is missing, which
+ * makes it impossible to use for proper event reporting, so disk->events
+ * is cleared to 0 and the following function is used only to trigger
+ * revalidation and never propagated to userland.
+ */
 unsigned int ide_cdrom_check_events_real(struct cdrom_device_info *cdi,
 					 unsigned int clearing, int slot_nr)
 {
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;