Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Dec 2007 08:25:57 +0300 | From | "Cyrill Gorcunov" <> | Subject | Re: Oops with 2.6.24 git when loading iwl3945 |
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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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