From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Subject: Re: [PATCH] ide_scsi: allow it to be used for non CD only Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:35:18 +0000 Message-ID: <20061129223518.19f6ef95@localhost.localdomain> References: <20061129144652.299f7919@localhost.localdomain> <58cb370e0611291405j1e5f3eb1t4950ed0993b84c85@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:26281 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758881AbWK2W2d (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:28:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: <58cb370e0611291405j1e5f3eb1t4950ed0993b84c85@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:05:56 +0100 "Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" wrote: > Hi, > > Nowadays, you can dynamically change driver bound to a device using > sysfs and it works just fine for IDE, ie: This isn't the point of this change. The point is to do this at discovery time. If you do it later then many horrible things happen as the device names and renames itself while udev goes boom. Its a small clean patch and it'll solve the problem nicely until drivers/ide dies.