From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc3-mm1 2/2] libata: SiS 180 pata/sata support Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:50:14 -0500 Message-ID: <45A23E06.5020605@garzik.org> References: <45A19F67.6050909@garzik.org> <20070108102809.512b4409@localhost.localdomain> <45A22E9F.1050607@garzik.org> <20070108125116.015da28f@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:54406 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161275AbXAHMuS (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 07:50:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20070108125116.015da28f@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cc: Uwe Koziolek , "linux.ide" , Sven Ladegast Alan wrote: > If it was added as a library then the non library driver would look > contain only a call to register the pci driver and a PCI table. The other > 7.5K would be waste space. That also means there is no load order issue. Ok there is no load order issue, but it's still an ugly solution. Far better would be, then, to combine the drivers into a single ata_sis driver, it sounds like. Jeff