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From: Tommy Reynolds <Tommy.Reynolds@MegaCoder.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Oops in register_chrdev, what did I do?
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 20:09:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040801200919.5da16bc7.Tommy.Reynolds@MegaCoder.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yw1xwu0i1vcp.fsf@kth.se>

Uttered Måns Rullgård <mru@kth.se>, spake thus:

> While experimenting a bit with a small kernel module, I got this
> oops.  Digging further, I found that /proc/devices had an entry saying
> 248 <NULL>
> which would indicate that I passed a NULL name to register_chrdev(),
> only I didn't.  I used a string constant, so I can't see what changed
> it to NULL along the way.
> 
> What am I missing here?

Enough information for us to help you.  Show us your code snippet,
please.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-02  1:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-01 20:01 Oops in register_chrdev, what did I do? Måns Rullgård
2004-08-02  1:09 ` Tommy Reynolds [this message]
2004-08-02  8:15   ` Måns Rullgård
2004-08-02  9:36 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-08-02  9:39   ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-08-02 10:09     ` Måns Rullgård
2004-08-02 10:10       ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-08-02 12:53         ` Måns Rullgård

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