On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 03:40:55PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > I disagree completely with this approach.
> >
> > You don't need a table of hooks for the case where libata is disabled in
> > .config. Thus, it's only useful for the case where libsas is loaded as
> > a module, but libata is not.
>
> Indeed, I misunderstood what James Bottomley wanted, so I reworked the
> patch. It has the same functionality as before, but this module uses
> the module loader/symbol resolver for all the functions in libata, and
> allows libsas to (optionally) call into sas_ata with weak references by
> pushing a table of the necessary function pointers into libsas at
> sas_ata load time. Thus, libsas doesn't need to load libata/sas_ata
> unless it actually finds a SATA device.
NACK again. Week references are bad. Please change it back to normal
hard references so that it works like everything else in the kernel.
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