Comment 17 for bug 8509

(In reply to comment #10)
> Yes once ide-generic starts the probing process drivers like ide-disk/ide-cd
> will be loaded automatically.

I finally got around to testing your proposed approach, and this doesn't seem to
be the case. I arranged for ide-generic to be loaded immediately after any
drivers/ide/pci driver, and yet ide-disk and ide-cd were never loaded.