Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Jul 2004 04:59:48 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] kill drive_info |
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On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 11:01:59AM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote: >... > > - drive_info = DRIVE_INFO; > > Hmm. setup.c copies this info from where it was left after booting > to some safe place. You seem to think that this saving is not required. > Is it not?
- boot_params is __initdata - hd_init in legacy/hd.c is __init - legacy/hd.c can't be built modular
Did I miss something?
The situation is different in 2.4 where the new (possibly modular) IDE driver also uses drive_info .
> Andries
cu Adrian
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