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Re: Which new modules to include in 2.6.25 udebs



On Thursday 12 June 2008, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> [2008-06-12 15:26]:
> > >> +drivers/ide/pci/ide-pci-generic.ko
> > >
> > > Dunno.
> >
> > Has ide-generic has been droped?
>
> No, it's still there.

Hmm. What does that module do? Seems it could possibly be a slightly more 
specific (safe maybe?) implementation of ide-generic.

FYI, I filed http://bugs.debian.org/485786 yesterday requesting to add 
back support for ide-generic in initramfs-tools.

No idea how this relates to that. The Kconfig descriptions are not 
particularly helpful either...

There is this in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt:
     ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
                     Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.

That sounds better than ide-generic which just claims anything it can lay 
its hands on as soon as its loaded. Wonder what it does by default 
though.
Also wonder if there are devices that ide-generic will support while 
ide-pci-generic does not.

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