Messages in this thread |  | | From | Dieter Nützel <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.21-rc3 | Date | Sat, 24 May 2003 17:12:23 +0200 |
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Am Freitag, 23. Mai 2003 16:13 schrieb Philippe Gramoullé: > Hello Russell, > > On Fri, 23 May 2003 22:56:17 +1000 > > Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote: > | I've noticed that the modules ide-taskfile.o and ide-io.o depend on > | each other if you compile the 2.4.21-rc3 with IDE as modules. > | > | Is this a bug in the kernel or are we supposed to use a new module > | loader that can resolve such things? > > IIRC, according to Alan Cox, on LKML, IDE shouldn't even work as a module, > well, if you value your data. > > So why don't you include IDE statically in your kernel ?
Because it worked for ages and do NOT since 2.4.19 or so.
I have all SCSI and need ATA/IDE only from time to time to recover bad ATA/IDE disks for some friends or customers.
ATA/IDE shouldn't be demanded thing in the kernel.
Regards, Dieter -- Dieter Nützel Graduate Student, Computer Science
University of Hamburg Department of Computer Science @home: Dieter.Nuetzel at hamburg.de (replace at with @)
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