Re: 2.5.69-mm6: pccard oops while booting

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-05-17T00:14:44Z

Russell King wrote:
> On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 01:40:26AM +0200, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
>
>>This is getting tricky. How about this one?
>>Attached is "ymfpci2.patch" with your suggested changes, and "dmesg"
>>with the new oops info.
>
>
> You need to reproduce the oops you get when you modprobe the module.
> The oops with this driver built in is different, and akpm's changes
> won't tell us which one causes the problem.

True. Just a stab in the dark - leaving KOBJ_NAME_LEN == 20 and
initializing the first four and last four bytes of the KOBJ_NAME_LEN
sized buffer with a counter starting at 0 might also prove very
interesting and could help resolve the Oops with the driver built in.
Motivation: Somehow, the disaster smells like somebody uses a hardcoded
offset designed to work only if KOBJ_NAME_LEN == 16.

I would provide a patch, but I don't have the source handy right now due
to disk space constraints.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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