> It is /very/ bad policy to force the user to load a driver that drives > real hardware, just to be able to access a few functions. Hardware and > probe side effects are a very real possibility, and with this setup, the No they are not. > user has /less/ control than normal over things such as load order when > pata_sis is loaded as a dependency. Where did I put the 2x4 Right.... * Whack * ;) The only probing the SiS driver does is for devices matching the SiS PCI identifiers in question. Since they are intergrated bridges it's actually physically impossible to obtain a box which contains both at once * Whack * ;) If it was added as a library then the non library driver would look contain only a call to register the pci driver and a PCI table. The other 7.5K would be waste space. That also means there is no load order issue. * Whack * ;) Now if this was an ISA driver or poked around in ugly places your argument would make sense. In this case I don't think your argument makes sense, but if you want a pointless tiny pata_sis module to waste memory on everyones boxes you can just ask and I'll send you a diff or two. Alan - 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
