Strange behavior since commit 5fef0e5c

[Larry Finger]

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Friday 14 November 2008, Larry Finger wrote:
>> In testing kernel version 2.6.28-rc4 on my server that was running kernel
>> 2.6.27, an external IDE disk system connected via a PCCard interface failed to
>> start because module ide_disk would not load. The console output is as follows:
>>
>> finger at sonylap:~> sudo modprobe -v ide-disk
>> WARNING: module 'ide_gd_mod' is unsupported
>> FATAL: Module ide_disk not found.
> 
> Please verify that your system uses a recent module-init-tools version
> and then repeat 'make modules' + 'make modules_install' (it could be that
> something went wrong previously during installing modules) as it works
> just fine for me with 2.6.28-rc3 and module-init-tools 3.4.

That was the problem. I had 3.3 pre11, which was installed by openSUSE 10.3.
Updating to version 3.4 fixed the problem. Thanks.

Should the requirement in Documentation/Changes be modified, or is that info no
longer used?

Larry