>>>>> "reinhard" == Reinhard Katzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

reinhard> Hi!
reinhard> Kernel 2.4.17.5mdk basically runs. While getting it to run I noted
reinhard> the following things:

reinhard> - When I use ide-disk as a module but the ide itself, I get a kernel
reinhard> oops (also happens with 2.4.16.2mdk) after loading ide-disk module:

Sorry for the delay answering.  Ide as a module is broken beyond
repair,  there are being changes in 2.5, and I hope but for 2.6, ide
will be a nice module, just now ide only works as a module if you have
an SCSI system and need only ide for the cd or something like that
:(((

Later, Juan.

reinhard> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
reinhard> printing eip:
reinhard> *pde=00000000
reinhard> Oooops: 0002
reinhard> CPU:   0
reinhard> EIP:   0010: [<c01156ea>]  Not tainted
reinhard> EFLAGS: 00010092

reinhard> ... (Register)

reinhard> Process insmod (pid: ..., stackpage ...)
reinhard> stack: ...
reinhard> Call trace: ...
reinhard> ERROR: /bin/insmod exited abnormally

reinhard> - I didn't find a module configuration where ide-mod.o, ide-probe-mod.o
reinhard> and ide-disk.o were modules and ide.o is in the kernel. According to
reinhard> mkinitrd this should be possible else mkinitrd is really buggy...
reinhard> (if ide.o is a module, mkinitrd does not include it in the module list)

reinhard> I'll try the new mkinitrd (18mdk) as soon as it appears on the mirrors.

reinhard> With best regards,

reinhard> Reinhard Katzmann
reinhard> -- 
reinhard> Software-Engineer, Developer for Embedded Devices
reinhard> Project: HyperPen Tablet USB Driver for Linux 
reinhard> GnuPG Public Key available on request

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