From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Frans Pop Subject: Re: No IDE drivers loaded for Toshiba Satellite 320 CDS Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:48:43 +0200 Message-ID: <200804141748.44306.elendil@planet.nl> References: <200804021524.27222.elendil@planet.nl> <200804131559.21664.elendil@planet.nl> <20080414135214.GC7385@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hpsmtp-eml20.kpnxchange.com ([213.75.38.85]:40689 "EHLO hpsmtp-eml20.kpnxchange.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754235AbYDNPss (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:48:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080414135214.GC7385@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Lennart Sorensen Cc: Tejun Heo , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz 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