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Hello, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
It seems you are right. The whole /usr/src/linux/drivers/ide/ directory does not contain any MODULE_PARM line. So, due to the poor ide driver code quality, it would be best SUSE would decide not to modularize IDE disk support, or to hire some better experts than the current kernel.org IDE maintainers...
And here is an other reason not to modularize it: I use Pegasos PPC machine. It has OpenFirmware, which can load the Linux kernel, but can't do anything with initrd. There is a workaround described at http://www.opensuse.org/PPC:Boot_pegasos which works, but is has a pretty serious limitation: one can not pass kernel parameters from OpenFirmware to the kernel image generated with mkzimage. We had more flexibility, if IDE drivers were compiled in. Bye, CzP