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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 :-). > > I would like to have these changes removed: > > (a) they break modular IDE > > (b) such changes should be first added to 2.6 and then backported to 2.4 > > (otherwise you are magically creating regression in 2.6) > > Its not my fault the 2.6 code is lagging badly, and I wrote the code 2.6 is not "lagging badly", this is a false statement. > because people using laptops, and people using ATA and SATA for business > expect basic functionality like hotplug to work. For most of them 2.6 > doesn't really matter and won't for another 6 months, but 2.4 matters right > now. I assume you will fix it 6 months from now in 2.6, right? :-) --bart - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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