Re: [PATCH v3] libsas: move ATA bits into a separate module

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 03:40:55PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> > I disagree completely with this approach.
> > 
> > You don't need a table of hooks for the case where libata is disabled in
> > .config.  Thus, it's only useful for the case where libsas is loaded as
> > a module, but libata is not.
> 
> Indeed, I misunderstood what James Bottomley wanted, so I reworked the
> patch.  It has the same functionality as before, but this module uses
> the module loader/symbol resolver for all the functions in libata, and
> allows libsas to (optionally) call into sas_ata with weak references by
> pushing a table of the necessary function pointers into libsas at
> sas_ata load time.  Thus, libsas doesn't need to load libata/sas_ata
> unless it actually finds a SATA device.

NACK again.  Week references are bad.  Please change it back to normal
hard references so that it works like everything else in the kernel.