Re: [PATCH] 2.5.5-pre1 IDE cleanup 9

Martin Dalecki
2002-02-22T13:50:53Z

Gerd Knorr wrote:
>> 1. Kill the ide-probe-mod by merging it with ide-mod. There is *really*
>> no reaons for having this stuff split up into two different
>> modules unless you wan't to create artificial module dependancies
>> and waste space
>> of page boundaries during memmory allocation for the modules
>>
>
> Ah, seems you are the one who broke modular ide in 2.5.5:
>
> Older kernels:
> insmod ide-mod, insmod ide-disk, insmod ide-probe-mod => works.
>
> 2.5.5:
> insmod ide-mod, insmod ide-disk => mounting /dev/hda2 doesn't work.
>
> Gerd

Well I will have to check this soon on a system booting out from SCSI.
Most propably it's an simple "load order" problem, where ide-disk should
call the probe code again. (But somehow ide-scsi, ide-cd and friends
do...)