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.) Stefan
--- drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c~ Thu Apr 19 13:44:46 2001 +++ drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c Thu Apr 19 13:45:33 2001 @@ -350,6 +350,12 @@ { int i, nr, foo; + if (!cdrom_numbers) { + int n_entries = CDROM_MAX_CDROMS / (sizeof(unsigned long) * 8); + cdrom_numbers = kmalloc(n_entries * sizeof(unsigned long), GFP_KERNEL); + memset(cdrom_numbers, 0, n_entries * sizeof(unsigned long)); + } + nr = 0; foo = -1; for (i = 0; i < CDROM_MAX_CDROMS / (sizeof(unsigned long) * 8); i++) { @@ -2696,10 +2702,6 @@ static int __init cdrom_init(void) { - int n_entries = CDROM_MAX_CDROMS / (sizeof(unsigned long) * 8); - - cdrom_numbers = kmalloc(n_entries * sizeof(unsigned long), GFP_KERNEL); - #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL cdrom_sysctl_register(); #endif