From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erik Mouw Subject: Re: [PATCH] prevent module unloading for legacy IDE chipset drivers Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:33:55 +0200 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040422103355.GC15176@harddisk-recovery.com> References: <200404212219.24622.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <20040422004104.GA19969@codepoet.org> <200404220250.15078.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from users.linvision.com ([62.58.92.114]:58326 "HELO bitwizard.nl") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263918AbUDVKd5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2004 06:33:57 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200404220250.15078.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: andersen@codepoet.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands