Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262058AbTEXO7T (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 May 2003 10:59:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262072AbTEXO7T (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 May 2003 10:59:19 -0400 Received: from paloma13.e0k.nbg-hannover.de ([62.181.130.13]:27264 "HELO paloma13.e0k.nbg-hannover.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262058AbTEXO7S convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 May 2003 10:59:18 -0400 From: Dieter =?iso-8859-15?q?N=FCtzel?= Organization: DN To: Philippe =?iso-8859-15?q?Gramoull=E9?= , Russell Coker Subject: Re: 2.4.21-rc3 Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 17:12:23 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 Cc: reiserfs , Linux Kernel List References: <200305232256.17604.russell@coker.com.au> <20030523161356.7986c5d6.pgramoul@nerim.net> In-Reply-To: <20030523161356.7986c5d6.pgramoul@nerim.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305241712.23316.Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1254 Lines: 39 Am Freitag, 23. Mai 2003 16:13 schrieb Philippe Gramoull?: > Hello Russell, > > On Fri, 23 May 2003 22:56:17 +1000 > > Russell Coker wrote: > | I've noticed that the modules ide-taskfile.o and ide-io.o depend on > | each other if you compile the 2.4.21-rc3 with IDE as modules. > | > | Is this a bug in the kernel or are we supposed to use a new module > | loader that can resolve such things? > > IIRC, according to Alan Cox, on LKML, IDE shouldn't even work as a module, > well, if you value your data. > > So why don't you include IDE statically in your kernel ? Because it worked for ages and do NOT since 2.4.19 or so. I have all SCSI and need ATA/IDE only from time to time to recover bad ATA/IDE disks for some friends or customers. ATA/IDE shouldn't be demanded thing in the kernel. Regards, Dieter -- Dieter N?tzel Graduate Student, Computer Science University of Hamburg Department of Computer Science @home: Dieter.Nuetzel at hamburg.de (replace at with @) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/