Re: [PATCH] Re: 2.4.17 Oops when trying to mount ATAPI CDROM

From: Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Date: Tue Feb 05 2002 - 08:12:12 EST


On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:27:42PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote:
>
> Folks there is a bigger problem if we are able to get to loading a
> sub-driver and we do not have a valid copy of the identify page attached
> to the drive struct. The resulting patch below is a nice bounds check for
> presense of "struct hd_driveid *id = drive->id" but this should have
> bombed out long before hand. I do not know if the suspend to swap has
> altered the behavor or not, but the driver has lost it knowledge about the
> device attached.

 Suspend to swap hasn't been merged yet, so you shouldn't need
 to worry about this..

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