Re: any chance of 2.6.0-test*?

Alan Cox
2003-01-11T18:23:52Z

On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 15:25, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 04:31:00PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > - ide-scsi needs some cleanup to fix switchover ide-cd/scsi
> > > > (We can't dump ide-scsi)
> > > > - Unregister path has races which cause all the long
> > > > standing problems with pcmcia and prevents pci unreg
> > >
> > > Can't you just disable module unloading for the release ?
> >
> > Only if I can also nail shut your PCMCIA slot, disallow SATA and remove
> > some ioctls people use for docking.
>
> Hmm? Didn't that all work in 2.4 with monolithic IDE ?

The pcmcia stuff crashes erratically with the old IDE the bugs have not
changed but the problem now shows up far more often. With a 2Gb type II
PCMCIA IDE disk I get a crash about 1 in 3 ejects now.