From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: Fw: Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1 + 4 hotfixes -- BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6ceb -- EIP is at module_put+0x7/0x1f Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:15:27 -0700 Message-ID: <20070328051527.GB8730@kroah.com> References: <20070322095232.f992794a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1174615467.23591.3.camel@sli10-conroe.sh.intel.com> <20070323051613.GA9560@kroah.com> <1175053953.10369.2.camel@sli10-conroe.sh.intel.com> <20070328041958.GA7669@kroah.com> <20070327212719.68c7729f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070328045124.GA8156@kroah.com> <20070327220904.4ba4f920.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([209.217.80.40]:38910 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753602AbXC1FQt (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:16:49 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070327220904.4ba4f920.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: Shaohua Li , "Brown, Len" , "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 10:09:04PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:51:24 -0700 Greg KH wrote: > > > So, where do I need to put this information so that people stop trying > > to be smarter than the kernel... > > Documentation/driver-model/driver.txt? > > And a pointer to a sample properly-written driver would help. Well, this is not something that a driver will ever have to do, it's only people writing a driver subsystem, or messing with sysfs in "different" ways. But yes, I will do that, it is really needed... thanks, greg k-h