linux-kernel - Re: No IDE drivers loaded for Toshiba Satellite 320 CDS

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Message-Id: <200804141748.44306.elendil@planet.nl>
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
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