From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean Delvare Subject: Re: PROBLEM: modprobe hang at startup (3.8.x, 3.9.x, IBM x3550) Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 11:47:04 +0200 Message-ID: <20130517114704.442f1368@endymion.delvare> References: <1368408152.29197.140661229821177.2C1CC406@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20130514231626.GA12961@pyro.melbourne.osa> <20130515112044.753bb7bb@endymion.delvare> <20130515112741.GA23766@pyro.melbourne.osa> <20130515214923.036dabdb@endymion.delvare> <20130516034455.GA19452@pyro.melbourne.osa> <20130517103622.5000d277@endymion.delvare> <5195F6C9.5050200@fold.natur.cuni.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5195F6C9.5050200-08dBlVkRsZWoiTQjSSYKZesEoJ4y9sgM@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-i2c-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Martin Mokrejs Cc: Robert Norris , Daniel Kurtz , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Linux I2C List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 17 May 2013 11:22:17 +0200, Martin Mokrejs wrote: > Hi, > while you are chasing some problem with i2c_801 I would like to mention > that I never got an answer on the thread https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/1/23/405 > about a kmemleak reported by kernel . Maybe this could give you a hint? > If these do not overlap I would be anyways glad to receive an answer via > the original thread I have started. > Thank you, > Martin I have no clue what the problem is nor how to investigate it, and in fact I strongly suspect that this is either a false positive or a problem in lower layers - driver core, sysfs etc. so nothing I can help with. So until someone comes with an evidence that there is an actual memory leak in the i2c-i801 driver itself I'm not going to pay any attention to your report, sorry. -- Jean Delvare