Re: 2.4.21-rc3

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
25 May 2003 20:27:54 +0100

On Sad, 2003-05-24 at 16:12, Dieter Nützel wrote:
> > IIRC, according to Alan Cox, on LKML, IDE shouldn't even work as a module,
> > well, if you value your data.

Thats only true for loading drivers into a live system where the drive
is already active in legacy mode, and its not something 2.4.19 allowed
so I disabled it again

> > 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.

Sure. someone just has to fix the makefiles

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