Re: modular IDE in 2.4.23

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

> On Sunday 23 of November 2003 21:56, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Uh. Oh. 2.4.23 IDE changes are obscure...  Modular IDE breakage is caused
> > > by Alan's hotplug changes and is not easy to fix properly.
> >
> > The fixing is simply a matter of linkage ordering and function execution.
> >
> > Simple thought experiment
> >
> > 	Merge ide-probe into ide-core
> > 	Export a symbol for the second initializer function if used modular
> > 	Create a mini module that just invokes the exported function on init
> 
> Update ide_probe_module() for new name of probe module.
> 
> > You now have the same execution sequence but with the link problem removed.
> 
> Hmm, actually you are right.  Sorry :-).

So mind you or Alan write a patch for me, please? 


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