From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263768AbTLTDHT (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2003 22:07:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263788AbTLTDHS (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2003 22:07:18 -0500 Received: from astound-64-85-224-253.ca.astound.net ([64.85.224.253]:1550 "EHLO master.linux-ide.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263768AbTLTDHO (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2003 22:07:14 -0500 Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 18:59:36 -0800 (PST) From: Andre Hedrick To: "Randy.Dunlap" cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , khc@pm.waw.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] ide.c as a module In-Reply-To: <20031219090541.10fae126.rddunlap@osdl.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 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 > MOTD: Always include version info. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >