Re: [visorchipset] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP

From: Ken Cox
Date: Mon Apr 07 2014 - 10:24:54 EST



On 04/07/2014 09:09 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 07:17:25PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
Hi Ken,

I got the below dmesg and the first bad commit is

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master

commit 12e364b9f08aa335dc7716ce74113e834c993765
Author: Ken Cox <jkc@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue Mar 4 07:58:07 2014 -0600
Commit: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Tue Mar 4 16:58:21 2014 -0800

staging: visorchipset driver to provide registration and other services
I think Sasha has already sent a fix to resolve this issue that I'll be
sending to Linus in a day or so.

Ken, is Sasha's patch going to resolve this issue as well? It looks
like people haven't tested what happens when the module is loaded
without the hardware present in the system :(
You are exactly right. The driver needs to check for hardware early on before trying to use it. Unfortunately, Sasha's patch will not resolve this one. I'll work with Ben Romer to get a patch out ASAP.

Thanks,
Ken Cox
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