Comment 5 for bug 8509

(In reply to comment #4)
> Herbert, what is the upstream position on this issue? Is there a proposed
> solution to arrange for these modules to be automatically loaded when using udev?

The position in general is that the module should be loaded by hotplug.

For IDE in particular, the problem is that IDE modularisation is still fairly
broken at the moment. In particular, the fact that the onboard chip can be
enabled by both ide-core and the chipset specific driver is the issue here.
Otherwise we could simply load ide-generic unconditionally after ide-core.

One workaround would be to get hotplug to always load ide-generic after loading
an IDE chipset driver, e.g., something in kernel/drivers/ide/pci/*.