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From: Yoav Weiss <ml-lkml@unpatched.org>
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Subject: Re: KERN_ERR "ide: late registration of driver."
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> > 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