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SubjectRe: Bug in mounting routines of atapi-cdroms


On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Chris Ricker wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Erik Andersen wrote:
>
> > Hmm. It works just fine for me here under 2.1.120. You dont have
> > "options cdrom autoclose=0" in /etc/conf.modules, right? Could you try
> > adding "options cdrom debug=1" so I can see where the mount process
> > dies? The output of dmesg (just the ide and cdrom specific parts) would
> > also be useful, so we know what type of drive it is...
> >
> > -Erik
> > The linux cdrom guy
>
> Erik,
>
> The problem he's describing sounds like the same one I have that we hunted
> down a couple of weeks ago (the changes in fs/isofs/inode.c between 2.1.101
> and 2.1.102).
>
> Sorry, I'd been meaning to send this to the list since I can't tell from the
> Maintainers file who does isofs (is that you, Gordon?) but then got busy
> with school and forgot about it. At any rate, the changes to
> fs/isofs/inode.c between 2.1.101 and 2.1.102 break cd-rom access for me and
> a few other people. They cause mount attempts of the cdrom to hang forever
> (on all cds, which work fine under 2.0.x / 2.1.x where x <= 101 , so it's
> not a problem with the images being bad). This is still true as of
> 2.1.122-pre2. So far, I haven't been able to narrow it down any farther than
> that set of changes. Isofs people, please ask away if you need more info.,
> have magic patches, etc.
>
/me is no kernel hacker but...
i checked isofs.c and found what broke it for me was a typo (possibly)

search for strnicmp and change it to strncmp.that should do the trick.

Cheers,
Yiannis.


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