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Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:15:48 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
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Subject: Re: threshold_init_device/kobject_uevent_env oops
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On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:05:40PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> current linus tree + x86.git
> 
> got
> 
> Calling initcall 0xffffffff80b93d98: threshold_init_device+0x0/0x3f()
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000040
> IP: [<ffffffff80458e20>] kobject_uevent_env+0x2a/0x3d9

Does this happen on just Linus's tree?

Can you send me a .config file for this?

What is threshold_init()?  Is it something new in the x86.git tree?

thanks,

greg k-h