The patch titled Allow ide_generic_all to be used modular and built in has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is allow-ide_generic_all-to-be-used-modular-and-built-in.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Allow ide_generic_all to be used modular and built in From: Patrick Jefferson <henj@xxxxxx> 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 <henj@xxxxxx> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> Closes-Bug: 7017 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/ide/pci/generic.c | 11 ++--------- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/ide/pci/generic.c~allow-ide_generic_all-to-be-used-modular-and-built-in drivers/ide/pci/generic.c --- a/drivers/ide/pci/generic.c~allow-ide_generic_all-to-be-used-modular-and-built-in +++ a/drivers/ide/pci/generic.c @@ -41,15 +41,8 @@ static int ide_generic_all; /* Set to claim all devices */ -#ifndef MODULE -static int __init ide_generic_all_on(char *unused) -{ - ide_generic_all = 1; - printk(KERN_INFO "IDE generic will claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.\n"); - return 1; -} -__setup("all-generic-ide", ide_generic_all_on); -#endif +module_param_named(all_generic_ide, ide_generic_all, bool, 0444); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(all_generic_ide, "IDE generic will claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers."); static void __devinit init_hwif_generic (ide_hwif_t *hwif) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from henj@xxxxxx are allow-ide_generic_all-to-be-used-modular-and-built-in.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html