On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 18:21 +0200, Christoph Franzen wrote:
[...]
> 1) Installed 2.6.30 from the backports, but without the Nvidia
> proprietary module, and rebooted into this configuration without
> changing "xorg.conf" to the "nv" driver, so X did not start; inserted
> the same 2GB SD card which I used before, mounted it by hand
> ("/dev/mmcblk0p1" on "/mnt"), tried "ls", copied all files from the
> card to a temporary location on the hard disk, copied about 256 MiB of
> files to the SD card, umounted the card again.
> => everything worked fine, no problems at all.
>
> 2) Changed "xorg.conf" to rule out the proprietary driver, rebooted
> into 2.6.26 with the SD card still inserted.
> => The kernel crashed while booting as soon as the card was accessed.
[...]
> So the bug might hide in any of the modules above (sdhc*, mmc_core).
>
> I think it would be best to port the fix from 2.6.30 to Lenny, because
> the average user could suffer from severe data loss by simply inserting
> a card into the slot.
Right, but first we need to identify the fix.
> I'm no kernel hacker, so I don't know where exactly to search for the
> bug, but I will test anything for you if you wish.
Thanks. Can you first please send a complete 'oops' message from
2.6.26?
Ben.
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