On 07/08/2019 11:46 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Linux 5.1 and newer have a libata driver for the Buddha controller > (drivers/ata/pata_buddha.c, CONFIG_PATA_BUDDHA). Please check if > that works for you and if not report back to the list. That's great news, thanks for pointing this out. I've given it a try and so far it seems to work a treat. I'll submit a patch to move Buddha detection from initcall to module_driver() autoprobing. That way, it's also no longer necessary to load the driver manually, and pata_buddha can be built right into the kernel. Max