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Re: deb install report



James J. Ramsey wrote:
> ide=nodma is not a module parameter per se, AFAICT.
> Judging from the release notes of Red Hat 8.0
> <http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/release-notes/x86/>,
> the parameter passed to the ide-cd module to disable
> DMA (which is disabled by default in RH 8.0, BTW) is
> dma=0, and that is part of a line in
> /etc/modules.conf, not something that can be passed at

linux-2.4.23/drivers/ide/ide.c:

int init_module (void)
{
        parse_options(options);

...

static void __init parse_options (char *line)
...
                if (!ide_setup(line))

...

int __init ide_setup (char *s)
...
        if (!strcmp(s, "ide=nodma")) {

QED.

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