Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Dec 2003 09:05:41 -0800 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: [patch] ide.c as a module |
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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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