From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] kill drive_info
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 04:59:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040715025948.GA19092@fs.tum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040714090159.GA3821@pclin040.win.tue.nl>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-15 2:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-14 0:08 [2.6 patch] kill drive_info Adrian Bunk
2004-07-14 9:01 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-15 2:59 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2004-07-15 10:44 ` cannot ping from a usb-serial device pietro canevarolo
2004-07-15 11:10 ` [2.6 patch] kill drive_info Andries Brouwer
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