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DateMon, 3 Dec 2007 08:25:57 +0300
From"Cyrill Gorcunov" <>
SubjectRe: Oops with 2.6.24 git when loading iwl3945
On 12/2/07, Thomas Tuttle <linux-kernel@ttuttle.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 19:43:16 +0300, "Cyrill Gorcunov"
> <gorcunov@gmail.com> said:
> > [Thomas Tuttle - Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 03:43:57PM -0500]
> > | Hey.
> > |
> > | I'm using a git snapshot that gentoo distributed mere hours ago (so I'm
> > | fairly confident it's current), and I'm getting an Oops when I try to
> > | load the iwl3945 driver.  I've attached it as plain text.
> > |
> > | Hope this helps,
> > |
> > | Thomas Tuttle
> >
> > Hi Thomas,
> > Could you please test the patch?
>
> It didn't help.  The original oops says the problem was in strcmp.  It
> was a GPF, which suggests to me that one of the arguments is NULL.
> Since ops->name is checked at the beginning of the function, the only
> other possibility is that alg->ops->name is NULL.  I added a bit of code
> to check for this, and it turns out that one of the strings was indeed
> NULL.  I didn't know where to go from there in debugging, but I hope it
> helps.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas Tuttle
>
Hi Thomas,
could you please attach your kernel's .config (and in bugzilla too).
Thanks.

Cyrill


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