From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946078AbXEAXxH (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 19:53:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946083AbXEAXxG (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 19:53:06 -0400 Received: from mill-adnc_internal-206-71-178-18.adnc.com ([206.71.178.18]:39098 "EHLO storix.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946078AbXEAXxF (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 19:53:05 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1490 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 19:53:05 EDT From: Rich Turner Organization: Storix, Inc. To: linux-kernel Subject: generic modules Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 16:31:30 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705011631.30740.rich@storix.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org heres hoping that someone will be able to answer my question, as i have searched many places and have been unable to find the type of answer i am looking for. i did find the short description of the module in the .c file for each, but nothing more detailed. using 2.6.20 kernel with or without the following modules loaded i am able to utilize the disks on my system, therefore what functionality do the following modules provide? kernel/drivers/ide/ide-generic.ko kernel/drivers/ide/pci/generic.ko kernel/drivers/ata/ata_generic.ko