From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752304AbYKNPCU (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:02:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751192AbYKNPCL (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:02:11 -0500 Received: from mtiwmhc11.worldnet.att.net ([204.127.131.115]:49070 "EHLO mtiwmhc11.worldnet.att.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751190AbYKNPCK (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:02:10 -0500 Message-ID: <491D92EB.2030200@lwfinger.net> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:02:03 -0600 From: Larry Finger User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080922) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Dominik Brodowski CC: LKML , linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org Subject: Strange behavior since commit 5fef0e5c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. I did not bisect this problem, but I believe that the following commit introduced this change: commit 5fef0e5c0283949f95a7891c9424a9f84448116b Author: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Date: Fri Oct 17 18:09:12 2008 +0200 My work-around has been to change 'modprobe ide-disk' to 'modprobe ide-gd_mod' in my startup. Please note that one of the underscores is changed to a hyphen. Thanks, Larry