I should have looked at the ide/pci/generic.c code in 2.6.19 instead of focusing on the new ata/ stuff and how it is implemented. This is old news but I just noticed it. 2.6.19 includes the same patch:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.19-rc1 commit a4bea10eca68152e84ffc4eaeb9d20ec2ac34664 Author: Patrick Jefferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue Oct 3 01:14:34 2006 -0700 [PATCH] Allow ide_generic_all to be used modular and built in Allow ide/pci/generic to claim chipsets as a a module or when built-in. It requires using "all_generic_ide" as a boot option. Signed-off-by: Patrick Jefferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Closes-Bug: 7017 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Even with this change, I believe that there is still a chicken in the egg problem with the debian-installer using debian-kernel images. Perhaps I am seeing this incorrectly. There seems to be no facility in the initrd made by mkinitramfs to pass command line module parameters to modprobe. The initrd loads a snapshot of modules and module settings from when it was made. My naive work around is to have scripts/functions:load_modules() first parse /proc/cmdline for all /[[:alnum:]]+\.[^ ]+/ instances, turning them into proper modprobe options lines and writing them to the temporary initrd /etc/modprobe.d, maybe as 'boot-options'. Maybe it should also go to the real file, or modprobe should just parse /proc/cmdline. I think that parsing the kernel command line options and passing them to initrd modules would be very useful. It would be nice if setting module options on the kernel command line would "just work"(tm) no matter how the module is compiled or when it is loaded. I'm not going to do too much on this idea yet. I suspect that it has already been done somewhere, or that the reason for not doing it has already been discussed and I just haven't found it yet. -- Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
