Re: [patch] ide.c as a module

[Andre Hedrick]

Bartlomiej,

There is a way, you just need to use a bigger hammer.
But if you are going to rootwad ./drivers/ide, I want the satisfaction of
MAD (mutual assured destruction!)

Cheers,

Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Randy.Dunlap wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 17:26:46 +0100 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> | On Thursday 18 of December 2003 01:29, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> | > BTW: modular IDE in 2.4.23 is still problematic - you can't unload the
> | > chipset driver (piix.o or something like) which in turn references the
> | > core IDE module.
> | 
> | It is probably too much work to fix it (properly) in 2.4.x and 2.6.x...
> | 
> | Please note that there is no refcounting in IDE drivers,
> | there is no host object type, also table of IDE ports (ide_hwifs[]) is static.
> | 
> | I hope 2.7 will obsolete drivers/ide...
> 
> in favor of libata or what?
> 
> --
> ~Randy
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