From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Pilcher Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 12:26:14 +0000 Subject: Re: AirPrime 5220 1xEVDO PC Card Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Greg KH wrote: > Can you try the patch below to see if it fixes the issue? That works. (Matthew Dharm suggested the same change.) AFAICT, this driver is fully functional now. Less than 24 hours! > What is the oops message? Not sure that it matters, but here you go: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000008 printing eip: f8c48a4c *pde =3D 3255d067 Oops: 0002 [#1] Modules linked in: ppp_deflate zlib_deflate ppp_async crc_ccitt=20 ppp_generic slhc airprime usbserial ohci_hcd parport_pc lp parport md5=20 ipv6 ds ipt_REJECT ipt_state ip_conntrack iptable_filter ip_tables vfat=20 fat dm_mod yenta_socket pcmcia_core uhci_hcd hw_random snd_intel8x0m=20 snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer=20 snd_page_alloc snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd soundcore=20 aes_i586 airo e100 mii floppy ext3 jbd CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010282 (2.6.9-5.EL.root.evdo) EIP is at usb_serial_generic_open+0x6e/0xef [usbserial] eax: f8c48e7e ebx: f8c48e7e ecx: c0000480 edx: 00000000 esi: f6af9800 edi: f27f5000 ebp: f7f4dc00 esp: f306ded4 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process kppp (pid: 3847, threadinfo=F306d000 task=F31aebd0) Stack: f7f4dc00 f611dfc0 f27f5000 00000000 f8c472d5 f1cca480 ffffffed=20 f1cca480 f27f5000 00000100 c0216a87 00008902 0bc00001 f27f5000 00000001=20 f306d000 f7f4de04 f662a714 00000000 c016c6c4 f1cca480 00000001 f1cca480=20 f662a714 Call Trace: [] serial_open+0x95/0xd9 [usbserial] [] tty_open+0x132/0x34a [] chrdev_open+0x325/0x3b9 [] dentry_open+0xbd/0x180 [] filp_open+0x36/0x3c [] recalc_task_prio+0x128/0x133 [] direct_strncpy_from_user+0x3e/0x5d [] sys_open+0x31/0x7d [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Code: a1 00 00 00 0f b6 45 20 8b 33 8b 55 1c 8b 0e c1 e0 0f c1 e1 08 09=20 c1 8b 43 04 81 c9 80 00 00 c0 8b 98 e8 00 00 00 b8 7e 8e c4 f8 42=20 08 00 00 00 00 85 db 0f 44 d8 89 72 34 c7 42 04 3c 4b 24 (I'm pretty sure this translates to, "The hardware you just tried to access doesn't exist.") Thanks for your help! --=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Ian Pilcher i.pilcher@comcast.net =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tell us your software development plans! Take this survey and enter to win a one-year sub to SourceForge.net Plus IDC's 2005 look-ahead and a copy of this survey Click here to start! http://www.idcswdc.com/cgi-bin/survey?id=105hix _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel