Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 11 Dec 2001 19:10:07 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: Kernel Oops on cat /proc/ioports |
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Matt wrote: > > speaking of living in module memory, a similar thing happens with the > via-rhine driver. after my machine has been up for a few hours the > "via-rhine" string in /proc/iomem and /proc/ioports gets over written > and prints garbage. since this has never been the cause for an oops on > my machine i never bothered reporting it. if anyone wants details i'll > provide. >
I think it _could_ oops. Would it be correct to assume that you're linking the driver into the kernel, rather than using it as a module?
--- linux-2.4.17-pre8/drivers/net/via-rhine.c Mon Dec 10 13:46:21 2001 +++ linux-akpm/drivers/net/via-rhine.c Tue Dec 11 19:08:17 2001 @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ static char version[] __devinitdata = KERN_INFO "via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.1.12 03/11/2001 Written by Donald Becker\n" KERN_INFO " http://www.scyld.com/network/via-rhine.html\n"; -static char shortname[] __devinitdata = "via-rhine"; +static char shortname[] = "via-rhine"; /* This driver was written to use PCI memory space, however most versions - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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