From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 17:35:11 -0400 Message-ID: <20110502213511.GA5641@infradead.org> References: <6E21E5352C11B742B20C142EB499E0481DD676@TK5EX14MBXC124.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> <20110429164025.GA7698@kroah.com> <20110501154041.GB15210@infradead.org> <6E21E5352C11B742B20C142EB499E0481DF253@TK5EX14MBXC124.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> <20110501160721.GA8195@infradead.org> <6E21E5352C11B742B20C142EB499E0481DF2A0@TK5EX14MBXC124.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> <20110501205315.GC1017@infradead.org> <6E21E5352C11B742B20C142EB499E0481DF543@TK5EX14MBXC124.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> <20110502200012.GA21619@infradead.org> <6E21E5352C11B742B20C142EB499E0481DF56D@TK5EX14MBXC124.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6E21E5352C11B742B20C142EB499E0481DF56D@TK5EX14MBXC124.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: KY Srinivasan Cc: Greg KH , "gregkh@suse.de" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "devel@linuxdriverproject.org" , "virtualization@lists.osdl.org" List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 09:16:36PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > That assumes libata is a module, which it is not for many popular > > distributions. > > > As long as you can prevent ata_piix from loading, it should be fine. Again, this might very well be built in, e.g. take a look at: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=kernel.git;a=blob;f=config-generic;h=779415bcc036b922ba92de9c4b15b9da64e9707c;hb=HEAD http://gitorious.org/opensuse/kernel-source/blobs/master/config/x86_64/default