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Subject: Re: moving ata initialisation to a command
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Robert Millan wrote:
> I'd like to move ata.mod initialisation away from its _init routine and into
> a separate command.  This way it isn't a nuissance when it gets included in
> monolithic builds (such as the ones made by grub-mkrescue) and disables biosdisk
> completely.
> 
> Does that sound fine?
> 

While you are there why not add optional IO-base argument so one could
use more than one controller lurking in other IO-bases (second/third PCI
?). Of course there needs to be some kind of auto detect for easier
usage for normal users.