Re: [PATCH] prevent module unloading for legacy IDE chipset drivers

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Thursday 22 of April 2004 12:33, Erik Mouw wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 02:50:15AM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > On Thursday 22 of April 2004 02:41, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > > Out of curiosity, what would be needed to make it safe to unload
> > > all ide modules from a system with a scsi rootfs?
> >
> > It doesn't matter - you still may end up unloading modules which are in
> > use.
>
> FWIW, with the old IDE code I've been unloading IDE modules for years
> without a single problem.

IDE chipset drivers were made 'modular' in 2.4.21
(release date 13-Jun-2003) and this complicated things

> What makes IDE sufficiently different from SCSI that we can't unload
> IDE host drivers?

- no reference counting
- lack of release() method
- insufficient locking

Cheers,
Bartlomiej

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