Re: Oops with 2.6.24 git when loading iwl3945

["Thomas Tuttle" <linux-kernel@ttuttle.net>]

On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 19:43:16 +0300, "Cyrill Gorcunov"
<gorcunov@gmail.com> 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