From: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: andersen@codepoet.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] prevent module unloading for legacy IDE chipset drivers
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:33:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040422103355.GC15176@harddisk-recovery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200404220250.15078.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl>
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 02:50:15AM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Thursday 22 of April 2004 02:41, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > Out of curiosity, what would be needed to make it safe to unload
> > all ide modules from a system with a scsi rootfs?
>
> It doesn't matter - you still may end up unloading modules which are in use.
FWIW, with the old IDE code I've been unloading IDE modules for years
without a single problem.
What makes IDE sufficiently different from SCSI that we can't unload
IDE host drivers?
Erik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-22 10:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-21 20:19 [PATCH] prevent module unloading for legacy IDE chipset drivers Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-04-22 0:41 ` Erik Andersen
2004-04-22 0:50 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-04-22 10:33 ` Erik Mouw [this message]
2004-04-22 14:35 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-04-26 13:50 ` Erik Mouw
2004-04-26 14:50 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-04-26 15:02 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-04-26 15:23 ` Erik Mouw
2004-04-26 15:54 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-04-26 6:31 ` Rogier Wolff
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