Re: 2.3.3 hangs on boot with "request_module[block-major-3] unable to find"

Andre M. Hedrick (hedrick@Astro.Dyer.Vanderbilt.Edu)
Tue, 25 May 1999 21:27:50 -0500 (CDT)


On Sat, 22 May 1999, Horst von Brand wrote:

> kthomas@gwdg.de (Philipp Thomas) said:
> > Does anybody have an explanation for me ?
>
> egcs snapshots (at least 2.93.x, 19 <= x <= 22) miscompile the
> function drivers/block/ide.c:init_hwif_data; in particular, the noprobe
> field is set to 1 when egcs-1.1.2 gives it the value 0.

Why?

That can really wreck the initialization of the entire driver.

Andre Hedrick
The Linux IDE guy

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