Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Feb 2002 19:17:03 +0100 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.5 IDE cleanup 11 |
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Alan Cox wrote: >>In esp using a CardBus ide adapter will give you after first >>plug: /dev/hdc, after second plug /dev/hde and so on... on 2.4.17 > > Just tried that - its working for me in 2.4.18pre - do you know what > triggers that ?
1. Clarification: The system where 2.4.18rc2, 2.5.5+x
2. Yes I know it is the very same bad workflow of initialization and deallocation routines. I suppose that the particular cause is inside the ide_module_t area.
3. I was compleatly ignorant about calling some device eject utilities or similar.
>>I'm just rying to clarify the code-flow before stuff like the above >>can be cleaned up. >> > > The problem is if you keep cleaning up stuff which was there ready to > merge new stuff, then its impossible to merge new stuff. At the moment > there are two many cooks involved in that code. It all needs to go via one > person and in an ordered way - even if it isnt Andre since Linus and Andre > aren't the most compatible people 8)
Andre already asked in private if I would dare to take care of new stuff comming from him for 2.5.5.
Please note that thus far I didn't see *any* concerete code from him.
But I still don't see any great problems in merging some forthcomming stuff iff it comes along.
Please see as well the quite nice mode of cooperation I had with Vojtech Pavlik.
Please note further that the foundations for true hot plugging done the right way where comming from Pavel Machek i have just picked it up as well as the _IDE_C mess and some other nit's here and there.
And finally - I don't do anything inside an ebony tower - I just *post* everything to lkml - whatever finished or not. Please feel free to discuss it.
Everybody who wants to contribute *please feel free* to post a ide-clean-11+x.diff. I'm NOT playing hodge on the code at all!
So the political problems you talk about are perhaps just not there...
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