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* KERN_ERR "ide: late registration of driver."
@ 2003-07-23 22:14 Yoav Weiss
  2003-07-23 22:30 ` Alan Cox
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Yoav Weiss @ 2003-07-23 22:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

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


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* Re: KERN_ERR "ide: late registration of driver."
  2003-07-23 22:14 KERN_ERR "ide: late registration of driver." Yoav Weiss
@ 2003-07-23 22:30 ` Alan Cox
  2003-07-23 23:13   ` Yoav Weiss
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Alan Cox @ 2003-07-23 22:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Yoav Weiss; +Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List

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


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* Re: KERN_ERR "ide: late registration of driver."
  2003-07-23 22:30 ` Alan Cox
@ 2003-07-23 23:13   ` Yoav Weiss
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Yoav Weiss @ 2003-07-23 23:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Alan Cox; +Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List

> > 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
>

ok, I'll look into it some more.  Could you please send your hack fix for
this ?

btw, isn't it a persistent problem for all cases ?  As far as I can see,
registration will always be late, at least for machines that boot from
ide.

	Yoav Weiss



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