From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268129AbUHFNNG (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 09:13:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268131AbUHFNNG (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 09:13:06 -0400 Received: from dsl-217-155-115-179.zen.co.uk ([217.155.115.179]:20102 "HELO felix.billp.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S268129AbUHFNNA (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 09:13:00 -0400 From: bil@beeb.net Reply-To: bil@beeb.net To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: problems with Mandrake 10.0 + kernel 2.6.8-rc2 Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 14:09:56 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 Cc: axboe@suse.de MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408061409.56670.bil@beeb.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I've recently moved to Mandrake 10.0 (prompted by a defunct hard disk which neccesitated a complete re-install) and have had several problems. As a result I have upgraded my kernel from 2.6.3 to 2.6.7 and then 2.6.8-rc2. Unfortunately the fire may be hotter than the frying-pan (Old English Proverb) and I'm now in a state where I can't mount CDroms. I can read the raw device OK, so the basic driver (ide-cd) is OK, or at least it seems to be. I've added traces to isofs.ko and established that this initialises OK, but when I attempt to mount the driver it gets a return code of -EINVAL when it tries to read the superblock (get_sb_bdev?()). I'm pretty sure that this must be something set up wrong somewhere as it's unlikely that 2.6.7 (or 2.6.8) would be released without someone somewhere needing to mount a cdrom, but I have no idea where to go from here. I am not a kernel-hacker, though I did some many moons ago, but I know enough to patch and rebuild modules and test them. I took a look at the source code of ide-cd.c but can't make much sense of the way things are done these days, and have too many other things to do.... Can anyone give me advice (or even better a fix)? I'd appreciate being CC'd on any response as I'm not on the kernel mailing list (too many others to wade through). Many thanks, Bill -- +-----------------------------------------------+ | Bill Purvis, thrice-retired software engineer | | e-mail: bil@beeb.net | | web: bil.members.beeb.net | +-----------------------------------------------+