Re: [PATCH] 2.5.5-pre1 IDE cleanup 9

[Gerd Knorr]

>  1.  Kill the ide-probe-mod by merging it with ide-mod. There is *really*
>       no reaons for having this stuff split up into two different
>      modules unless you wan't to create artificial module dependancies 
>  and waste space
>      of page boundaries during memmory allocation for the modules

Ah, seems you are the one who broke modular ide in 2.5.5:

Older kernels:
  insmod ide-mod, insmod ide-disk, insmod ide-probe-mod  => works.

2.5.5:
  insmod ide-mod, insmod ide-disk  => mounting /dev/hda2 doesn't work.

  Gerd