From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265641AbUBFSW2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 13:22:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265646AbUBFSW2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 13:22:28 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([65.200.24.183]:25520 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265641AbUBFSWW (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 13:22:22 -0500 Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:22:00 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Ben Collins Cc: Robert Gadsdon , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: 2.6.2-mm1 aka "Geriatric Wombat" Message-ID: <20040206182200.GE32116@kroah.com> References: <402240F9.3050607@gadsdon.giointernet.co.uk> <20040205182614.GG13075@kroah.com> <20040206144729.GJ1042@phunnypharm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040206144729.GJ1042@phunnypharm.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 09:47:30AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:26:14AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 01:11:21PM +0000, Robert Gadsdon wrote: > > > 2.6.2-mm1 tombstone "Badness in kobject_get....." when booting: > > > > Oooh, not nice. That means a kobject is being used before it has been > > initialized. Glad to see that check finally helps out... > > Doesn't sound like a bug in ieee1394. This bus for each is done on the > ieee1394_bus_type, which is registered way ahead of time. Nothing is in > that device list that didn't come from device_register(). Has something > new changed to where I need to prep the device more before passing it to > device_register()? No, not at all. You are initializing the structure to 0 before setting any fields in it, right? But that wouldn't be the symptom we are seeing here... thanks, greg k-h