From: Angus Sawyer Prevent OOPS on removing floppy driver with "rmmod -f floppy". floppy.c would attempt to unregister resources for nonexistent device. Patch stops the driver attempting to register and unregister the nonexistent device by removing the drive from the allowed drives mask (defaults to present). (forwarded by akpm@digeo.com) drivers/block/floppy.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+) diff -puN drivers/block/floppy.c~floppy-oops-fix drivers/block/floppy.c --- 25/drivers/block/floppy.c~floppy-oops-fix 2003-03-20 03:11:48.000000000 -0800 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/block/floppy.c 2003-03-20 03:11:48.000000000 -0800 @@ -3649,6 +3649,8 @@ static void __init config_types(void) name = default_drive_params[type].name; allowed_drive_mask |= 1 << drive; } + else + allowed_drive_mask &= ~(1 << drive); } else { params = &default_drive_params[0].params; sprintf(temparea, "unknown type %d (usb?)", type); _