Comment 14 for bug 71318

Ben, regarding that bet, you'd loose :) I had pata_via loaded when I ran update-initramfs -u (this time upgrading from .19-6-7 to .19-6-9) and it didn't put pata_via into the initrd. I had to add it to /etc/initramfs/modules again. My /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf has the default "most".

/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hook-functions defines what modules go in, and it lists all the sata- modules (for "scsi") but no pata-modules.