From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
To: Davin McCall <davmac@ozonline.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix issues with loading PCI ide drivers as modules (linux 2.6.0)
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 12:13:39 +0100
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On Tuesday 06 of January 2004 03:51, Davin McCall wrote:
> Ok - fourth try! Hopefully I'm getting better.
>
> On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 15:16:03 +0100
>
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl> wrote:
> > You don't need to export "initializing" variable from ide.c,
> > just use "pre_init" variable from setup-pci.c :-).
>
> Yes - of course.
>
> But actually I have found an even better solution - "hwif->present" tells
> us if the hwif is currently being controlled by some chipset driver (that's
> what it's there for!) so I check that instead.

This is wrong, driver owns hwif before probing for drives
(when at least one drive is found hwif->present is set to one),
so hwif entries can be modified even with hwif->present equal to zero.

--bart

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