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

[Erik Mouw]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 04:35:12PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Thursday 22 of April 2004 12:33, Erik Mouw wrote:
> > What makes IDE sufficiently different from SCSI that we can't unload
> > IDE host drivers?
> 
> - no reference counting
> - lack of release() method
> - insufficient locking

Do you plan to fix the module unloading in the current code, or is it
easier to write a new driver based on libata (assuming it has been
fixed in libata)? If I understood Jeff's latest libata update
correctly, it should be possible Real Soon Now [tm], right?


Erik

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