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Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 15:28:29 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Svetoslav Slavtchev <svetljo@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: Badness in kobject_get at lib/kobject.c:439
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On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:02:56AM +0100, Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote:
> Call Trace:
>  [<c019a1f4>] kobject_get+0x30/0x3d
>  [<c01dd8d3>] class_get+0x1a/0x2c
>  [<c01ddb67>] class_device_add+0x41/0x110
>  [<c01cc4ec>] misc_add_class_device+0x63/0xc6
>  [<c01cc6d8>] misc_register+0xeb/0x120
>  [<c0361fd8>] apm_init+0x2ec/0x324

Hm, here's the problem.  Can you disable APM and see if the oops goes
away?  I bet apm_init() is being called before misc_init() is.

If you don't want to disable APM (and you should not have to) can you
apply the patch below to misc.c and let me know if it fixes your problem
or not?

thanks,

greg k-h

--- a/drivers/char/misc.c	Mon Oct  6 10:47:30 2003
+++ b/drivers/char/misc.c	Tue Dec  9 15:28:10 2003
@@ -407,4 +407,4 @@
 	}
 	return 0;
 }
-module_init(misc_init);
+subsys_initcall(misc_init);