On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:38:12 CDT, "John Treubig" wrote: > Can I load pata_pdc2027x as a module or must it be built as part of the > kernel? I am using RedHat Fedora with 2.6.17.1 stock kernel. LibATA has > been installed in the kernel with ATA_ENABLE_PATA undefined. The > pata_pdc2027x driver is not part of the Fedora build, so I have been able to > build pata_pdc2027x as a module with ATA_ENABLE_PATA defined for the module. > When I try to load the pata_pdc2027x module it will not displace the IDE > native driver. What's the mechanism that is used to determine if the IDE > driver grabs the device or LibATA/pata_pdc_2027x? The base kernel needs the old driver (pdc202xxx...) built as a module (or not at all) to give the pata_pdc2027x module a chance to load. Once that is done, you can add the module as required to mkinitrd and it should be the first loaded, which prevents the other driver from loading. > > You may ask why I don't just live with the IDE driver. This stems from > problems we saw in accessing the Promise PDC2027x drives under 2.6.10 where > the system lost time. In discussions with Albert Lee, it was resolved that > the best approach was to convert our access to use LibATA. After usage of > the LibATA access, the time loses issue has gone away. I know that there > have been changes in both the IDE and LibATA structures, so I'm open to > additional advice. > > Best wishes, > John Treubig > VT Miltope > Senior Test Engineer - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
