Re: question about driver built-in kernel
From: Greg KH
Date: Sat Nov 19 2005 - 00:53:55 EST
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 06:57:38PM -0700, yiding_wang@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Thanks Greg!
>
> Got everything straighten up.
>
> 1, replaced init_module() by __init init_module to avoid kernel build conflict.
> 2, arranged correct sequence in Makefile to load two drivers in proper order.
>
> Now it looks the pci bus register accessing has problem. If loaded as
> module, everything works fine. If build in kernel, it always failed at
> the spot driver resetting the chip through register during the kernel
> loading. It seems the pci base address mapping or something related
> has problem. Is there any difference for ioremap call between the
> kernel loading and after system is up? Is anything special on pci
> device register accessing during the kernel booting, compare with
> after system boot up?
Do you have a pointer to your source code, so we can look at it to see
what is wrong?
thanks,
greg k-h
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