On Monday 14 April 2008, you wrote: > > I also think the way I've implemented in the Debian installer should be > > relatively safe: > > 1) ide-generic is only loaded _after_ any otherwise detected modules > > 2) it is only loaded if an ISA bus is present > > 3) it is only included in the initrd for the installed system if > > loading it in the installer resulted in additional block devices > > appearing > > OK, great for x86 perhaps, what about other systems? As I've said before, that needs testing. > In the past debian would load ide-generic last. It worked great. Keep > doing that. I am not aware of loading ide-generic after all the other > drivers ever causing any harm in the older debian installers. Maybe not, but having it loaded in _every_ installed Debian system even when it was completely unused is definitely something we want to get rid of. Note that the old behavior relied on the fact that initramfs-tools also loaded ide-generic by default, which it now no longer does. Cheers, FJP -- 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
