Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Feb 2006 23:37:28 -0500 | From | William Park <> | Subject | Re: DMA in PCI chipset -- module vs. compiled-in |
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On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 12:14:09PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On 2/7/06, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > > On Maw, 2006-02-07 at 09:14 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > * chipset specific driver > > > > > > The most common mistake is to built-in ide-generic driver > > > and compile chipset specific driver as module... > > > > Oh that no longer works. That worked in 2.4, as it would take over the > > chipset. Didn't work if it was in use at the time but did work correctly > > if idle. > > I'm talking about _driver_ here and it works just fine. > > If you are talking about "taking over" feature, you are right. > It was racy and indeed "worked" depending on timing.
Interesting. I'll move the "generic" as module, and see how it goes.
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