Re: [2.6 PATCH] visor: Always do generic_startup

Greg KH
2004-11-21T04:09:59Z

On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 12:23:53PM +1100, Simon Fowler wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 09:44:05AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 04:49:43PM +0100, Roger Luethi wrote:
> > > generic_startup in visor.c was not called for some hardware, resulting
> > > in attempts to access memory that had never been allocated, which in
> > > turn caused the problem several people reported with recent (2.6.10ish)
> > > kernels.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>
> >
> > Thanks for finding this.
> >
> > Applied.
> >
> This patch fixes the oops, but after applying it I can no longer
> sync my palm 5 - it starts, but part way through the connection is
> lost.

Can you enable debugging in the visor driver (either through the
modprobe paramater, or through the /sys/module/paramater/debug file, and
send it to us?

thanks,

greg k-h