From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271362AbTGWWVA (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:21:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271363AbTGWWVA (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:21:00 -0400 Received: from crosslink-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.254]:239 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271362AbTGWWU6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:20:58 -0400 Subject: Re: KERN_ERR "ide: late registration of driver." From: Alan Cox To: Yoav Weiss Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1058999419.6891.14.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 23 Jul 2003 23:30:19 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mer, 2003-07-23 at 23:14, Yoav Weiss wrote: > Recently installed 2.4.22-pre7 on 2 boxes here. > Seems like drivers_run is already set by the time ide_register_driver get > called. Following the logic of that driver, it makes sense. ide_init() > gets called early and inits the ide. (banner: "Uniform Multi-Platform > E-IDE driver..."). ide_register_driver() is never used inside the driver > but is exported and called after partition check, way down the line. > > Therefore, I don't see why the late registration is an error. Am I > missing something ? It may change drive ordering. I've not decided if its an error yet but its on my todo list to fix it one way or the other. I have a hack fix I can give marcelo for 2.4.22 so its not critical path