linux-kernel - Re: Strange behavior since commit 5fef0e5c

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Message-ID: <491DECF9.6020707@lwfinger.net>
Date:	Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:26:17 -0600
From:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
CC:	Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-pcmcia@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Strange behavior since commit 5fef0e5c

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@...ylap:~> 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
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