Re: [Upstream] Stop ARM boards crashing with CUPS is loaded

Randy Dunlap
2010-07-12T18:38:40Z

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,
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~Randy
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