From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: wa1ter@myrealbox.com, andmike@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [Bug 492] New: Zip drive parallel-port driver causes segfault in 2.5.x
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 23:56:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030323225634.GA10164@win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2070000.1048457694@[10.10.2.4]>
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 02:14:54PM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492
>
> Summary: Zip drive parallel-port driver causes segfault in 2.5.x
> Kernel Version: 2.5.x
> Status: NEW
> Severity: high
> Owner: andmike@us.ibm.com
> Submitter: wa1ter@myrealbox.com
>
>
> Problem Description: ppa module doesn't work properly and, if compiled into
> kernel it causes a kernel panic at boot.
> Steps to reproduce:compile ppa.ko as a module and modprobe ppa:
>
> Error messages include 'scheduling while atomic' and 'oops: 0004 [#2]'
> and 'unable to handle kernel paging request' and 'modprobe exited with
> preempt_count 1'.
>
> This same problem has existed at least since kernel 2.5.49 when I
> started trying the 2.5 series, and I suspect that ppa has never
> worked with 2.5 kernels, but I don't know for sure. The driver
> works fine with 2.4 kernels.
>
> Note: it is NOT necessary to have a parallel Zip drive to test this
> kernel module. The ppa module should load without error even with no
> Zip drive connected!
Just compiled ppa and insmod'ed. No problems. [2.5.65, no such Zip drive]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-23 22:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-23 22:14 [Bug 492] New: Zip drive parallel-port driver causes segfault in 2.5.x Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-23 22:56 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
2003-03-24 0:15 ` Andrew Morton
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