Re: [patch] ide.c as a module

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Friday 19 of December 2003 18:05, 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?

yes, in favor of libata, but don't tell jeff ;-).

--bart

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