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On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 17:26:46 +0100 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl> 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?

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~Randy
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