Re: 2.4.21-pre1 broke the ide-tape driver

[Alan Cox]

On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 23:38, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 02:23:34 +0100, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> >> Kernel 2.4.21-pre1 broke the ide-tape driver: the driver
> >> now hangs during initialisation. 2.2 kernels (with Andre's
> >> IDE patch) and 2.4 up to 2.4.20 do not have this problem.
> >> My box has a Seagate STT8000A ATAPI tape drive as hdd;
> >> hdc is a Philips CD-RW, and the controller is ICH2 (i850 chipset).
> >http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/patch@1.828?nav=index.html|ChangeSet@-7d|cset@1.828
> 
> Addendum: this patch fixes the init-time hang, and ide-tape does
> seem to work fine, but 'rmmod ide-tape' oopses -- 2.4.20-ac2 also
> oopses on 'rmmod ide-tape'.

I don't unfortunately have any ide-tape devices. I'll take a look though