Re: [RFC] removal of legacy cdrom drivers (Re: [PATCH] mcdx.c insanityremoval)

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 3 May 2004, Rene Herman wrote:
> 
> Doesn't actually look all driver. The CD is good; works fine in this 
> same drive with its own 2.0 kernel (and on other drives). Please note, 
> this is a 386. Memory is good. dmesg and .config attached.

Looks like the driver seriously broke the request list, and that in turn 
corrupted memory. So the oopses are totally independent of the real bug.

Most likely a scrogged conversion to the new request handling.

		Linus
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