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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:48:43 +0200 From: Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl> To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com> Subject: Re: No IDE drivers loaded for Toshiba Satellite 320 CDS On Monday 14 April 2008, you wrote: > > I also think the way I've implemented in the Debian installer should be > > relatively safe: > > 1) ide-generic is only loaded _after_ any otherwise detected modules > > 2) it is only loaded if an ISA bus is present > > 3) it is only included in the initrd for the installed system if > > loading it in the installer resulted in additional block devices > > appearing > > OK, great for x86 perhaps, what about other systems? As I've said before, that needs testing. > In the past debian would load ide-generic last. It worked great. Keep > doing that. I am not aware of loading ide-generic after all the other > drivers ever causing any harm in the older debian installers. Maybe not, but having it loaded in _every_ installed Debian system even when it was completely unused is definitely something we want to get rid of. Note that the old behavior relied on the fact that initramfs-tools also loaded ide-generic by default, which it now no longer does. Cheers, FJP -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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