Re: Strange behavior since commit 5fef0e5c

[Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:26:17 -0600 Larry Finger wrote:

> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > On Friday 14 November 2008, Larry Finger wrote:
> >> In testing kernel version 2.6.28-rc4 on my server that was running kernel
> >> 2.6.27, an external IDE disk system connected via a PCCard interface failed to
> >> start because module ide_disk would not load. The console output is as follows:
> >>
> >> finger@sonylap:~> sudo modprobe -v ide-disk
> >> WARNING: module 'ide_gd_mod' is unsupported
> >> FATAL: Module ide_disk not found.
> > 
> > Please verify that your system uses a recent module-init-tools version
> > and then repeat 'make modules' + 'make modules_install' (it could be that
> > something went wrong previously during installing modules) as it works
> > just fine for me with 2.6.28-rc3 and module-init-tools 3.4.
> 
> That was the problem. I had 3.3 pre11, which was installed by openSUSE 10.3.
> Updating to version 3.4 fixed the problem. Thanks.
> 
> Should the requirement in Documentation/Changes be modified, or is that info no
> longer used?

IMO it should be updated (or deleted if it's really useless).

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~Randy