Strange behavior since commit 5fef0e5c

Strange behavior since commit 5fef0e5c

[Larry Finger]

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 <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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

Re: Strange behavior since commit 5fef0e5c

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

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.

Thanks,
Bart

Re: Strange behavior since commit 5fef0e5c

[Larry Finger]

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?

Larry

Re: Strange behavior since commit 5fef0e5c

[Randy Dunlap]

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