revisit: turning some of the "always used" modules to built-in

Arjan van de Ven arjan at infradead.org
Mon Jun 23 13:46:36 UTC 2008


On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:07:34 +0100
Matthew Garrett <mjg at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:42:18AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > Rationale: Since we load these always anyway, why bother making it
> > modules
> > - ata_generic, pata_acpi
> 
> Won't this cause ata_generic

not without a specific kernel command line option

> or pata_acpi to claim the devices before
> a hardware specific driver can be loaded?
if this one does we need to add a command line option for it too


> 


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