Re: [PATCH] fix issues with loading PCI ide drivers as modules (linux 2.6.0)

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>]

On Sunday 04 of January 2004 04:21, Davin McCall wrote:
> However, there are still two genuine but easily solveable problems that I
> can see:
>
> 1) unless "idex=base,ctl,irq" is used, the hwif->chipset is left as
> "ide_unknown" (this means for that the hwif can get re-allocated in
> setup-pci.c - ide_match_hwif() - and clobbered)

Hmm.  What if hwif is freed by a driver?

> 2) if "idex=base,ctl,irq" IS used, the hwif structure will still get
> clobbered when a PCI chipset module is loaded.
>
> What about this is a solution to these problems:
>  - set hwif->chipset to "ide_generic" instead of leaving it as
> "ide_unknown" (ide-probe.c); - if ide_match_hwif() returns an already
> allocated hwif, do not clobber it in ide_hwif_configure() (setup-pci.c)

This brakes "idex=base..." parameters for PCI chipsets.
They shouldn't be needed in this case, but...

--bart