Jeff, Any chance of pushing this into 2.6.19? I've been had several people hit this oops. Thanks, Brian Brian King wrote: > When building a monolithic kernel, the load order of drivers > does not work for SAS libata users, resulting in driver load > failures. Convert libata to use subsys_initcall instead of > module_init, which ensures that libata gets loaded before > any LLDD. This is the same thing that scsi core does > to solve the problem. The load order problem was observed on > ipr SAS adapters and should exist for other SAS users as well. > > Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > linux-2.6-bjking1/drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 2 +- > 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff -puN drivers/ata/libata-core.c~libata_subsys_init drivers/ata/libata-core.c > --- linux-2.6/drivers/ata/libata-core.c~libata_subsys_init 2006-10-23 16:48:15.000000000 -0500 > +++ linux-2.6-bjking1/drivers/ata/libata-core.c 2006-10-23 16:48:15.000000000 -0500 > @@ -5957,7 +5957,7 @@ static void __exit ata_exit(void) > destroy_workqueue(ata_aux_wq); > } > > -module_init(ata_init); > +subsys_initcall(ata_init); > module_exit(ata_exit); > > static unsigned long ratelimit_time; > _ -- Brian King eServer Storage I/O IBM Linux Technology Center - 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
