From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] ata: Intel IDE-R support Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:37:39 +0200 Message-ID: <4C6CFB63.2070001@kernel.org> References: <20100810155559.7620.79711.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <4C6AB68D.8000102@kernel.org> <20100817174257.3691ed68@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4C6AB919.7060203@kernel.org> <20100817180158.179e7780@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4C6ABFFA.2000502@kernel.org> <20100817192353.3529733c@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4C6B7B72.4090405@kernel.org> <20100818110306.03ce2fbc@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4C6BE9C8.4030803@kernel.org> <20100818161521.430ba361@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:49437 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750883Ab0HSJlg (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:41:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100818161521.430ba361@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: Alan Cox , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org Hello, On 08/18/2010 05:15 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >> That's the reason why we have module priorities. The link priority >> becomes module priority and modprobe will deterministically prefer >> ata_piix over ata_generic if a controller is supported by both. > > Sure - but if ata_generic is already compiled in or already loaded ? Well, what if pata_acpi is already compiled in or already loaded? Or what if ata_piix is already compiled in or already loaded but ahci is not for an ich6 controller? We have priorities in the drivers, if the user/admin wants to use the lower priority ones that much, he/she shall. This isn't an issue. There's no way to hotplug intel IDEs anyway. Thanks. -- tejun