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From: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.5-pre1 IDE cleanup 9
Date: 22 Feb 2002 10:07:29 GMT
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>  1.  Kill the ide-probe-mod by merging it with ide-mod. There is *really*
>       no reaons for having this stuff split up into two different
>      modules unless you wan't to create artificial module dependancies 
>  and waste space
>      of page boundaries during memmory allocation for the modules

Ah, seems you are the one who broke modular ide in 2.5.5:

Older kernels:
  insmod ide-mod, insmod ide-disk, insmod ide-probe-mod  => works.

2.5.5:
  insmod ide-mod, insmod ide-disk  => mounting /dev/hda2 doesn't work.

  Gerd

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