Comment 3 for bug 8427

(In reply to comment #2)
> Warty. One idea would be to delay loading of ide-generic somehow until after
> hotplug in the boot process

Yes that should work. Or you could not load ide-generic/ide-disk at all but
always create the device in udev to let the old autoload mechanism handle it.
You'll need to fix the alias in module-init-tools to point to ide-generic
instead of ide-probe-mod for this to work.