Bug#574412: linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64: unloading and realoding ide-cd-mod breaks system

[Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz>]

On 18 March 2010 01:57, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 01:12 +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>> Package: linux-2.6
>> Version: 2.6.32-9
>> Severity: important
>>
>>
>> Doing
>>
>> # rmmod ide-cd-mod cdrom
>> # modprobe ide-cd
>>
>> causes kernel null dereference and somewhow breaks the system so that it
>> is no longer usable - it seems that the system is extremely slow and
>> variuos applications eventually stop completely.
>
> The IDE subsystem is not properly maintained any more and this is not
> very likely to be fixed.  Starting from 2.6.32-10 most PC IDE
> controllers will be handled by libata-based drivers and you should not
> need to use ide-cd.
>
Hope that it gets into Debian soon.

Finally time for

# CONFIG_IDE is not set

in stock Debian kernels as well.

Thanks

Michal