Re: [PATCH] 2.5.5-pre1 IDE cleanup 9

Gerd Knorr
2002-02-22T11:10:22Z

> 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