Query regarding ide-module loading in mkinitrd

[Rachita Kothiyal]

Hi all

I am not quite sure if this is the right place to post
a query on mkinitrd. If not pls. excuse.

Following is my query:

I have IDE built as module in my 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 kernel
and my rootfs uses IDE as the block device driver.
When I am trying to create an initrd for this kernel,
using mkinitrd-3.5.13, it does not include the insmod
for piix.ko(which happens to be my low level IDE
driver). I also looked into the mkinitrd source code,
and could not find any mention of low level driver
insertion for IDE. It only inserts 'ide-disk' and
'ide-core' modules.

Could someone pls. tell me if this is the expected
behaviour? Shouldn't there be insertion of the low
level driver also happening?


Thanks in advance
Rachita Kothiyal
Intern, LTC
IBM, Bangalore