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

[Rogier Wolff]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:33:55PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote:
> 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.

Hmm. Not completely true: It crashes on our VIA EPIA board. Would 
anybody have an idea why it works on most systems, but crashes
hard on the VIA EPIA? (I'm not sure wether it crashes the hardware
or the software). 

			Roger. 

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