From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: crash in init_ipic_sysfs on efika
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:45:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080320064542.GA11434@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18400.41990.995316.729968@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Wed, Mar 19, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Olaf Hering writes:
>
> > I cant reproduce this bug on my board, but:
> >
> > The global primary_ipic in arch/powerpc/sysdev/ipic.c can remain NULL if
> > ipic_init() fails. init_ipic_sysfs() will crash in that case.
> >
> > Something like this may fix it:
>
> Is this needed for 2.6.25? Is the system at all usable if ipic_init
> fails?
CONFIG_PPC_MPC51* needs to be disabled for pmac/chrp/bplan .configs.
A full featured ppc32_defconfig will probably catch such errors.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-20 6:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-17 19:53 crash in init_ipic_sysfs on efika Olaf Hering
2008-03-19 5:26 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-03-20 6:45 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2008-03-19 15:27 ` Olaf Hering
2008-03-20 11:32 ` Matt Sealey
2008-03-21 11:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-03-20 15:15 ` Kumar Gala
2008-03-21 1:38 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-03-21 5:14 ` Grant Likely
2008-03-21 9:03 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-03-21 9:18 ` Kumar Gala
2008-03-24 8:02 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-03-24 22:59 ` Kumar Gala
2008-03-21 13:14 ` Matt Sealey
2008-03-21 18:51 ` Grant Likely
2008-03-22 15:25 ` Sven Luther
2008-03-23 9:00 ` David Woodhouse
2008-03-23 10:12 ` Sven Luther
2008-03-23 10:13 ` David Woodhouse
2008-03-23 10:24 ` Sven Luther
2008-03-24 23:01 ` Matt Sealey
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