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SubjectRe: [2.6 patch] kill drive_info
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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