On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I've noticed kernels 2.4.7, 2.4.8 and 2.4.9 can oops when modprobing
> > floppy.o under certain circumstances (specifically I've noticed it when
>
> floppy.o crashes the box or prints bad things if there is no floppy
> controller. I've not yet had time to investigate
Ok - it's no big problem, I just don't compile it as a module now (the
kernel is used on both boxes with floppy and without, so it needs to be
there, but I have no problem with compiling it into the kernel - it
doesn't seem to break, just says "no floppy controller present" on the
floppy-less boxes.)
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