Re: 2.6.3 oops at kobject_unregister, alsa & aic7xxx

[Eric Kerin <eric@bootseg.com>]

On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 19:07, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> wrote:
> >
> > This happens at shutdown when alsa is to close down. I'm running debian
> > sid. NOTE: I recently removed my aic7xxx out of the motherboard, so the
> > driver obviously can't find it. But if I remove aic7xxx from the modules
> > list, this oops does _not_ happen.
> 
> That's useful infomation.  It indicates that the aic7xxx driver is screwing
> up the kobject lists.
> 
> Just to confirm: are you saying that the aic7xxx driver is loaded at the
> tie of the oops, but there is no aic7xxx hardware present in the machine?


I stumbled up this in early January.  I posted a patch to linux-scsi,
but it dosn't seem to be merged at this point.  This problem will also
occur with the aic79xx driver.

Here's the location of the original thread:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=107307695430108&w=2

I just tried the patch on 2.6.3, and it still applies cleanly.

Eric Kerin