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
--
+-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 --
| Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands
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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20040426135058.GC14074@harddisk-recovery.com \
--to=erik@harddisk-recovery.com \
--cc=B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl \
--cc=andersen@codepoet.org \
--cc=linux-ide@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox