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From: Simon Fowler <simon@himi.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: jsimmons@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.70-bk radeonfb oops on boot.
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 15:05:40 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030611050540.GD2852@himi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030610211607.2bb55b41.akpm@digeo.com>

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On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 09:16:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Simon Fowler <simon@himi.org> wrote:
> >
> > > > > 
> > > > > It might be worth reverting this chunk, see if that fixes it:
> > > > > 
> > > > > --- b/drivers/char/mem.c        Thu Jun  5 23:36:40 2003
> > > > > +++ b/drivers/char/mem.c        Sun Jun  8 05:02:24 2003
> > > > > @@ -716 +716 @@
> > > > > -__initcall(chr_dev_init);
> > > > > +subsys_initcall(chr_dev_init);
> > > > > 
> > > > And we have a winner . . . Reverting this hunk fixes the oops.
> > > > 
<snippage> 
> Thanks for testing.
> 
> All the initcall ordering of chardevs versus pci, pci versus pci and who
> knows what else is all bollixed up.
> 
> Unfortunately I do not have the bandwidth to work on this.

Since this seems to be a showstopper for people using radeonfb,
getting the 'fix' above in might be a good idea . . .

Simon

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-11  4:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-10  6:16 2.5.70-bk radeonfb oops on boot Simon Fowler
2003-06-10  6:36 ` Joshua Kwan
2003-06-10  6:48 ` Greg KH
2003-06-10  6:53   ` Simon Fowler
2003-06-10 13:02 ` Simon Fowler
2003-06-10 21:14   ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-11  2:19     ` Simon Fowler
2003-06-11  3:16       ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-11  3:55         ` Simon Fowler
2003-06-11  4:16           ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-11  5:05             ` Simon Fowler [this message]
2003-06-11  7:56               ` Helge Hafting
2003-06-10 13:24 ` Helge Hafting

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