From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753369AbYKQQOd (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:14:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751918AbYKQQOZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:14:25 -0500 Received: from acsinet12.oracle.com ([141.146.126.234]:16410 "EHLO acsinet12.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751061AbYKQQOY (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:14:24 -0500 Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:10:59 -0800 From: Randy Dunlap To: Larry Finger Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Dominik Brodowski , LKML , linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Strange behavior since commit 5fef0e5c Message-Id: <20081117081059.e008ff46.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <491DECF9.6020707@lwfinger.net> References: <491D92EB.2030200@lwfinger.net> <200811142053.05880.bzolnier@gmail.com> <491DECF9.6020707@lwfinger.net> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.0; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: acsmt701.oracle.com [141.146.40.71] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A010204.492197DC.00BE:SCFSTAT928724,ss=1,fgs=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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). --- ~Randy