From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Lee Jones <ljkenny@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [Upstream] Stop ARM boards crashing with CUPS is loaded
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:37:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100712113743.c95d49dc.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C3B071D.10505@gmail.com>
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:14:21 +0100 Lee Jones wrote:
> Please find attached a patch which rectifies the following bug.
>
> When CUPS loads, it tries to load several drivers that it may need.
> When one of these drivers, specifically parport_pc is loaded on ARM
> based systems, it causes a segmentation fault as the address is not
> writable on non-PC based architectures. This code prevents this
> driver from being compiled on said architectures.
Do you have any specific information on where the segfault occurs?
and please read <kernel-source-tree>/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
and possibly Documentation/email-clients.txt .
thanks,
---
~Randy
*** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-12 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-12 12:14 [Upstream] Stop ARM boards crashing with CUPS is loaded Lee Jones
2010-07-12 13:38 ` Woody Suwalski
2010-07-12 18:37 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
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