On 18 March 2010 01:57, Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 01:12 +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> Package: linux-2.6 >> Version: 2.6.32-9 >> Severity: important >> >> >> Doing >> >> # rmmod ide-cd-mod cdrom >> # modprobe ide-cd >> >> causes kernel null dereference and somewhow breaks the system so that it >> is no longer usable - it seems that the system is extremely slow and >> variuos applications eventually stop completely. > > The IDE subsystem is not properly maintained any more and this is not > very likely to be fixed. Starting from 2.6.32-10 most PC IDE > controllers will be handled by libata-based drivers and you should not > need to use ide-cd. > Hope that it gets into Debian soon.
Finally time for # CONFIG_IDE is not set in stock Debian kernels as well. Thanks Michal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
