Re: initcall at ... returned with error code -19 (Was: Re:2.6.16-rc5-mm2)

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Mar 06 2006 - 17:08:05 EST


"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 3/3/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc5/2.6.16-rc5-mm2/
> >
>
> With this kernel I sometimes get :
> initcall at 0xc0432790: rng_init+0x0/0xa0(): returned with error code -19
> and sometimes :
> initcall at 0xc0428240: init_hpet_clocksource+0x0/0x90(): returned
> with error code -19
>
> I haven't paid enough attention to be able to say if some boots had
> other variations, but at least the two above have been observed.
>

That's OK - it's -ENODEV. It's saying "hey, you linked this driver into
vmlinux but it didn't find any hardware to drive".
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