Re: [PATCH] prevent module unloading for legacy IDE chipset drivers

[Erik Mouw]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 02:50:15AM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Thursday 22 of April 2004 02:41, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > Out of curiosity, what would be needed to make it safe to unload
> > all ide modules from a system with a scsi rootfs?
> 
> It doesn't matter - you still may end up unloading modules which are in use.

FWIW, with the old IDE code I've been unloading IDE modules for years
without a single problem.

What makes IDE sufficiently different from SCSI that we can't unload
IDE host drivers?


Erik

-- 
+-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 --
| Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/