Bug#336688: yaird also add [permanent] ide-generic

[Mau <mavog@hotmail.com>]

Frederik Schueler wrote:

>Hello,
>
>on my via82cxxx box, I had to load the via driver before the ide-generic
>one since I switched to a 2.6. kernel, configured manually first in 
>/etc/mkinitrd/modules and now in /etc/yaird/Default.cfg.
>  
>
This is the same I did to solve my problem

>On other boxes, notably amd74xx and piix based ones I have access to, 
>this was not needed.
>  
>
Probably it wasn't needed because in those setups the piix module was
correctly detected as "needed for access to the root device": in my case
piix is not strictly "needed", as my root partition resides on an hard
disk connected to a HPT-370 pci add-on card.

>Best regards
>Frederik Schueler
>
I think that the problem is only related with the mandatory presence of
the generic module. Sorry about via troubles but, in my opinion, if a
way to load an "emergency module" can't be found here (i.e., loading
ide-generic as the last chance when the root device is not accessible
after loading the specific module), we'd have to resolve the issues
related with yaird. The via issue is probably a kernel related issue, as
probably is the choice to mark a module as "permanent"... but yaird
shouldn't add unnecessary modules to initrd or, if this is not possible,
it should include the specific modules too.

Erik, you asked 'yaird -v' output: did you mean 'yaird -v --test
[version]'? The output is about 163kB, should I attach it here?

Bye - Mau