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SubjectRe: 2.6.2-mm1 aka "Geriatric Wombat"
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 12:27:58PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 10:22:00AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 09:47:30AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:26:14AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 01:11:21PM +0000, Robert Gadsdon wrote:
> > > > > 2.6.2-mm1 tombstone "Badness in kobject_get....." when booting:
> > > >
> > > > Oooh, not nice. That means a kobject is being used before it has been
> > > > initialized. Glad to see that check finally helps out...
> > >
> > > Doesn't sound like a bug in ieee1394. This bus for each is done on the
> > > ieee1394_bus_type, which is registered way ahead of time. Nothing is in
> > > that device list that didn't come from device_register(). Has something
> > > new changed to where I need to prep the device more before passing it to
> > > device_register()?
> >
> > No, not at all. You are initializing the structure to 0 before setting
> > any fields in it, right? But that wouldn't be the symptom we are seeing
> > here...
>
> Yeah, it's being memset() to zero. After that I set the parent and the
> bus_id, and then call device_register().
>
> One thing I notice is that I am not checking the return value of
> device_register(), however if that fails, the device shouldn't be in the
> device list for the bus, correct?

That is correct. I don't see the problem either in looking at your
code...

thanks,

greg k-h
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