Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 - irda goes belly up

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:33:46AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:06:48 PDT, Andrew Morton said:
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc3/2.6.23-rc3-mm1/
> 
> OK, so I don't actually *use* the irDA on my laptop for much, but I figure if
> I have the hardware, I should at least make sure the driver comes up.
> 
> 23-rc3-mm1 causes massive spewage, apparently at least partially as a fall-out
> of the sysctl rework.  Not sure if those caused the 'unknown symbol' issues or
> not.  The 'cannot allocate memory' is somewhat odd too, I can't believe it was
> *really* out of memory while still in /etc/rc5.d when I have 2G of ram...

Eric is a bit sadistic with sysctls. If sysctl_check_table() fails
irda_sysctl_register() will think there is no memory.

As for unknown symbols, hell knows. Same as with multiple syscts errors.
What have you modprobed exactly and what is $(grep IRDA .config) ?

> kernel: [  247.804000] NET: Registered protocol family 23
> kernel: [  247.804000] sysctl table check failed: /net/irda .3.412 Unknown sysctl binary path
> kernel: [  247.804000] sysctl table check failed: /net/irda/discovery .3.412.1 Unknown sysctl binary path
> kernel: [  247.804000] sysctl table check failed: /net/irda/devname .3.412.2 Unknown sysctl binary path
> kernel: [  247.804000] sysctl table check failed: /net/irda/debug .3.412.3 Unknown sysctl binary path
> kernel: [  247.804000] sysctl table check failed: /net/irda/fast_poll_increase .3.412.4 Unknown sysctl binary path
> kernel: [  247.804000] sysctl table check failed: /net/irda/discovery_slots .3.412.5 Unknown sysctl binary path
> kernel: [  247.804000] sysctl table check failed: /net/irda/discovery_timeout .3.412.6 Unknown sysctl binary path
> kernel: [  247.804000] sysctl table check failed: /net/irda/slot_timeout .3.412.7 Unknown sysctl binary path
> kernel: [  247.804000] sysctl table check failed: /net/irda/max_baud_rate .3.412.8 Unknown sysctl binary path
> kernel: [  247.804000] sysctl table check failed: /net/irda/min_tx_turn_time .3.412.9 Unknown sysctl binary path
> kernel: [  247.804000] sysctl table check failed: /net/irda/max_tx_data_size .3.412.10 Unknown sysctl binary path
> kernel: [  247.804000] sysctl table check failed: /net/irda/max_tx_window .3.412.11 Unknown sysctl binary path
> kernel: [  247.804000] sysctl table check failed: /net/irda/max_noreply_time .3.412.12 Unknown sysctl binary path
> kernel: [  247.804000] sysctl table check failed: /net/irda/warn_noreply_time .3.412.13 Unknown sysctl binary path
> kernel: [  247.804000] sysctl table check failed: /net/irda/lap_keepalive_time .3.412.14 Unknown sysctl binary path
> kernel: [  247.816000] NET: Unregistered protocol family 23
> kernel: [  247.826000] ircomm: Unknown symbol hashbin_insert
	...
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