Please pass on any feedback on any of this stuff to the maintainer,
whose address can be found in linux/MAINTAINERS.
-Note that if BOTH hd.c and ide.c are configured into the kernel,
-hd.c will normally be allowed to control the primary IDE interface.
-This is useful for older hardware that may be incompatible with ide.c,
-and still allows newer hardware to run on the 2nd/3rd/4th IDE ports
-under control of ide.c. To have ide.c also "take over" the primary
-IDE port in this situation, use the "command line" parameter: ide0=0x1f0
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The IDE driver is modularized. The high level disk/CD-ROM/tape/floppy
drivers can always be compiled as loadable modules, the chipset drivers
can only be compiled into the kernel, and the core code (ide.c) can be