When building a monolithic kernel, the load order of drivers does not work for SAS libata users, resulting in a kernel oops. 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> --- Jeff, This is needed for 2.6.19 since without it monolithic kernels on lots of PPC64 machines oops at boot time. Please ack/nack as appropriate. Thanks, Brian --- 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 2006-11-13 15:39:35.000000000 -0600 +++ linux-2.6-bjking1/drivers/ata/libata-core.c 2006-11-13 15:39:35.000000000 -0600 @@ -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; _ - 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
