Re: OOPS in read_cd... what to do?

[Faik Uygur]

> I reported twice (Jan 15 the last time) to this list a kernel oops when
> reading a CD in a SONY CDU-31A unit with kernels 2.4.18 - 2.4.20 (and
> probably all the 2.4 series), which works fine on 2.2.x (and even
> 1.2.x!!), maybe the maintainer of this part os the code is offline... Are
> there any alternatives to fix this problem? Thank you.

There is something wrong here. This should help.

--- linux-2.4.20/drivers/cdrom/cdu31a.c.orig    Fri Nov 29 01:53:12 2002
+++ linux-2.4.20/drivers/cdrom/cdu31a.c Wed Jan 29 23:12:39 2003
@@ -1384,9 +1384,9 @@
                               readahead_buffer + (2048 -
                                                   readahead_dataleft),
                               readahead_dataleft);
-                       readahead_dataleft = 0;
                        bytesleft -= readahead_dataleft;
                        offset += readahead_dataleft;
+                       readahead_dataleft = 0;
                } else {
                        /* The readahead will fill the whole buffer, get the data
                           and return. */