On Fri, Apr 20 2001, Stefan Jaschke wrote:
> On Friday 20 April 2001 00:49, J . A . Magallon wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just built 2.4.3-ac10 and got an oops when booting. It tries to detect
> > the CD and gives the oops.
> > >>EIP; c01bfc7c <cdrom_get_entry+1c/50>   <=====
> 
> This appears to be a known problem. Jens Axboe sent a patch in a different
> thread ("SD-W2002 DVD-RAM") that fixes this. I am including it
> here for your convenience. (The patch is against 2.4.4-pre4 + Jens' 
> latest fixes.) 

Indeed, and it was the missing init call as suspected. The problem is
that cdrom is consequently linked after low level drivers -- this is
really the stuff that should be fixed, but instead of rewriting all of
that this quick hack should suffice.

-- 
Jens Axboe