Comment 9 for bug 8509

(In reply to comment #5)
> 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/*.

That workaround doesn't sound too bad. If we arrange for ide-generic to be
loaded, does that take care of ide-cd and ide-disk as well, if needed? I am
under the impression that those modules are not automatically loaded either.