Re: Generic IDE support in Debian kernel-image packages

2007-02-16 Thread Jacob L. Anawalt
I thought an easy way to set a value to ide_generic_all would be to add module_param(ide_generic_all, int, 0) to the end of ide/pci/generic.c as ata/ata_generic.c does. Looking around for some documentation on module_param (I can only keep so many levels of macro expansion in my head) I found a

Generic IDE support in Debian kernel-image packages

2007-02-09 Thread Jacob L. Anawalt
Hello, I would like to know what it would take to enable generic ide support as a fallback option using a stock Debian kernel-image. I think that having the option available without recompiling a custom kernel would be a great boon to all Debian users who are trying to use Debian with a Linux