From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754326AbYKNV0g (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:26:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751437AbYKNV01 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:26:27 -0500 Received: from mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net ([204.127.131.117]:37544 "EHLO mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751349AbYKNV00 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:26:26 -0500 Message-ID: <491DECF9.6020707@lwfinger.net> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:26:17 -0600 From: Larry Finger User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080922) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz CC: Dominik Brodowski , LKML , linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Strange behavior since commit 5fef0e5c References: <491D92EB.2030200@lwfinger.net> <200811142053.05880.bzolnier@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200811142053.05880.bzolnier@gmail.com> 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 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