Re: [PATCH] Altix : ioc4 serial driver support

Patrick Gefre
2005-02-02T20:49:59Z

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 04:45:05PM -0600, Pat Gefre wrote:
>
> Please kill ioc4_ide_init as it's completely unused and make ioc4_serial_init
> a normal module_init() handler in ioc4_serial, there's no need to call
> them from the generic driver.
>

I want ioc4_serial_init called before pci_register_driver() if I make it a
module_init() call I have no control over order ??

> Do you need to use ide_pci_register_driver? IOC4 doesn't have the legacy
> IDE problems, and it's never used together with such devices in a system,
> so a plain pci_register_driver should do it.
>

So ide_pci_register_driver is only for legacy devices with certain IDE
problems - I think that is what you are saying (just trying to make sure
I have it right) ??

Thanks for the review,
-- Pat