Re: Oops with 2.6.15

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Thu Jan 05 2006 - 18:11:00 EST


On 1/6/06, Jacek Luczak <difrost@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> HI all
>
> I receive this Oops (see below) with kernels from 2.6.15-rc5 to 2.6.15
> (I haven't using earlier versions of 2.6.15-rc). I'm using sk98lin
> driver (version 8.28.1.3) from Syskonnect and ndiswrapper-1.7. Is this
> error caused by sk98lin driver?
>
It might be.
As long as you are running a tainted kernel, getting people to look
seriously at an oops is going to be hard - no way to debug the
binary-only code that tainted the kernel, so it's pretty impossible to
know what's going on.

[snip]
> Jan 5 19:25:04 slawek kernel: Modules linked in: sk98lin ndiswrapper
> usbhid uhci_hcd i915
> Jan 5 19:25:04 slawek kernel: CPU: 0
> Jan 5 19:25:04 slawek kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c0138603>] Tainted: P

Try and reproduce with a non-tainted kernel.

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