From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.25-rc9] ATA/IDE: fix platform driver hotplug/coldplug Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:02:25 +0200 Message-ID: <200804170102.26377.bzolnier@gmail.com> References: <200804131011.13404.david-b@pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.155]:37060 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752247AbYDPWtv (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:49:51 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l27so2589881fgb.17 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:49:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200804131011.13404.david-b@pacbell.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: David Brownell Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, kay.sievers@vrfy.org On Sunday 13 April 2008, David Brownell wrote: > From: Kay Sievers > > Since 43cc71eed1250755986da4c0f9898f9a635cb3bf, the platform > modalias is prefixed with "platform:". Add MODULE_ALIAS() to the > hotpluggable ATA and IDE platform drivers, to re-enable auto loading. > > NOTE: both ata/pata_platform.c and ide/legacy/ide_platform.c claim > to provide "the" platform_pata driver, and there's no build-time > mutual exclusion mechanism. This means that configs which enable > both drivers will make some trouble when hotplugging... > > [ dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net: more drivers, registration fixes ] > Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers > Signed-off-by: David Brownell Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz