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Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 14:50:06 +0100
From: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
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To: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.5-pre1 IDE cleanup 9
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Gerd Knorr wrote:
>> 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

Well I will have to check this soon on a system booting out from SCSI.
Most propably it's an simple "load order" problem, where ide-disk should
call the probe code again. (But somehow ide-scsi, ide-cd and friends
do...)


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