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: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:50:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040426135058.GC14074@harddisk-recovery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200404221635.12490.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl>
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 04:35:12PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Thursday 22 of April 2004 12:33, Erik Mouw wrote:
> > What makes IDE sufficiently different from SCSI that we can't unload
> > IDE host drivers?
>
> - no reference counting
> - lack of release() method
> - insufficient locking
Do you plan to fix the module unloading in the current code, or is it
easier to write a new driver based on libata (assuming it has been
fixed in libata)? If I understood Jeff's latest libata update
correctly, it should be possible Real Soon Now [tm], right?
Erik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-26 13:51 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
2004-04-22 14:35 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-04-26 13:50 ` Erik Mouw [this message]
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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