From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271341AbTGWV65 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 17:58:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271343AbTGWV65 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 17:58:57 -0400 Received: from corky.net ([212.150.53.130]:22737 "EHLO marcellos.corky.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271341AbTGWV64 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 17:58:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 01:14:00 +0300 (IDT) From: Yoav Weiss X-X-Sender: yoavw@marcellos.corky.net To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: KERN_ERR "ide: late registration of driver." Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Recently installed 2.4.22-pre7 on 2 boxes here. During boot, I always get the message "ide: late registration of driver." which comes from ide.c:2234:ide_register_driver(). 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 ? And if its not an error, it shouldn't be printed as KERN_ERR. When booting the kernel with the 'quiet' option, thats the only message printed. Yoav Weiss