Bug#330455: linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 loads every ide pci module at boot time
Package: linux-image-2.6.12-1-686
Version: 2.6.12-6
Severity: important
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 depends on:
ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2.1 The GNU core utilities
ii initrd-tools 0.1.82 tools to create initrd image for p
ii module-init-tools 3.2-pre8-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
the title says it all...
christophe@monk:~$ lsmod
/* I paste only the relevant info here */
ide_disk 18688 4
ide_generic 1152 0 [permanent]
via82cxxx 13820 0 [permanent]
trm290 4196 0 [permanent]
triflex 3680 0 [permanent]
slc90e66 5664 0 [permanent]
sis5513 16488 0 [permanent]
siimage 12448 0 [permanent]
serverworks 9032 0 [permanent]
sc1200 7296 0 [permanent]
rz1000 2400 0 [permanent]
piix 10340 0 [permanent]
pdc202xx_old 11168 0 [permanent]
opti621 4324 0 [permanent]
ns87415 4264 0 [permanent]
hpt366 20384 0 [permanent]
hpt34x 5152 0 [permanent]
generic 3808 0 [permanent]
cy82c693 4676 0 [permanent]
cs5530 5312 0 [permanent]
cs5520 4544 0 [permanent]
cmd64x 11900 0 [permanent]
atiixp 5904 0 [permanent]
amd74xx 14396 0 [permanent]
alim15x3 12268 0 [permanent]
aec62xx 7360 0 [permanent]
pdc202xx_new 9248 0 [permanent]
ide_core 130388 27 ide_disk,ide_generic,via82cxxx,trm290,triflex,slc90e66,sis5513,siimage,serverworks,sc1200,rz1000,piix,pdc202xx_old,opti621,ns87415,hpt366,hpt34x,generic,cy82c693,cs5530,cs5520,cmd64x,atiixp,amd74xx,alim15x3,aec62xx,pdc202xx_new
unix 27888 196
/* end of relevant info */
That sadly makes a big memory footprint here...
The problem doesn't happen with kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686.
The machine is an IBM Thinkpad a20p
christophe@monk:~$ lspci -v | grep -i 440
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Greetings,
Christophe
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