Re: Repeatable IDE Oops for 2.6.11 (ide-scsi vs ide-cdrom)

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Date: Tue Mar 15 2005 - 03:26:04 EST



On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Alan Cox wrote:

On Llu, 2005-03-14 at 06:55, Paul wrote:
# cat driver
ide-cdrom version 4.61
# echo ide-scsi > driver
# cat driver

This has always been unsafe. Its something I suggested was removed a
long time ago because the locking for it is unfixable.

Locking is fixed in ide-dev-2.6 tree
(at the moment seem to be dropped from -mm?).

[ the FIXME comment left in ide-proc.c is also applicable to
modprobe/rmmod case as the issue is not /proc/.../driver specific ]
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