Re: Oops with 2.6.24 git when loading iwl3945

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Sun Dec 02 2007 - 13:05:53 EST


[Thomas Tuttle - Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 12:46:01PM -0500]
| On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 19:43:16 +0300, "Cyrill Gorcunov"
| <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx> said:
| > [Thomas Tuttle - Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 03:43:57PM -0500]
| > | Hey.
| > |
| > | I'm using a git snapshot that gentoo distributed mere hours ago (so I'm
| > | fairly confident it's current), and I'm getting an Oops when I try to
| > | load the iwl3945 driver. I've attached it as plain text.
| > |
| > | Hope this helps,
| > |
| > | Thomas Tuttle
| >
| > Hi Thomas,
| > Could you please test the patch?
|
| It didn't help. The original oops says the problem was in strcmp. It
| was a GPF, which suggests to me that one of the arguments is NULL.
| Since ops->name is checked at the beginning of the function, the only
| other possibility is that alg->ops->name is NULL. I added a bit of code
| to check for this, and it turns out that one of the strings was indeed
| NULL. I didn't know where to go from there in debugging, but I hope it
| helps.
|
| Thanks,
|
| Thomas Tuttle
|

thanks, i do know that problem is in strcmp, i just thought the reason
of bug was a delayed procedure execution 'case of missing mutex unlock.
Have to dig deeper ;)

Cyrill

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