On Tuesday 20 February 2007 20:30, Jacob L. Anawalt wrote: > [PATCH] Allow ide_generic_all to be used modular and built in > > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Acked-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Closes-Bug: 7017 > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Having this patch included for Etch would be great. > Even with this change, I believe that there is still a chicken in the > egg problem with the debian-installer using debian-kernel images. > Perhaps I am seeing this incorrectly. There seems to be no facility > in the initrd made by mkinitramfs to pass command line module > parameters to modprobe. The initrd loads a snapshot of modules and > module settings from when it was made. Yes, there is. See http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05s02.html#module-parms Not 100% sure it will work for this case, but in principle it should.
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