The sata_mv driver can be loaded as a platform device, as is done by various Orion (ARM) based devices. The driver needs to define a module alias for the platform driver so udev will load it automatically. Tested with Debian on a QNAP TS-209. Signed-off-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@xxxxxxxxxx> --- a/drivers/ata/sata_mv.c +++ b/drivers/ata/sata_mv.c @@ -3198,6 +3198,7 @@ MODULE_DESCRIPTION("SCSI low-level driver for Marvell SATA controllers"); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, mv_pci_tbl); MODULE_VERSION(DRV_VERSION); +MODULE_ALIAS("platform:sata_mv"); #ifdef CONFIG_PCI module_param(msi, int, 0444); -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html