Re: Oops with 2.6.24 git when loading iwl3945

From: Thomas Tuttle
Date: Sun Dec 02 2007 - 12:46:17 EST


On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 19:43:16 +0300, "Cyrill Gorcunov"
<gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx> said:
> [Thomas Tuttle - Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 03:43:57PM -0500]
> | Hey.
> |
> | I'm using a git snapshot that gentoo distributed mere hours ago (so I'm
> | fairly confident it's current), and I'm getting an Oops when I try to
> | load the iwl3945 driver. I've attached it as plain text.
> |
> | Hope this helps,
> |
> | Thomas Tuttle
>
> Hi Thomas,
> Could you please test the patch?

It didn't help. The original oops says the problem was in strcmp. It
was a GPF, which suggests to me that one of the arguments is NULL.
Since ops->name is checked at the beginning of the function, the only
other possibility is that alg->ops->name is NULL. I added a bit of code
to check for this, and it turns out that one of the strings was indeed
NULL. I didn't know where to go from there in debugging, but I hope it
helps.

Thanks,

Thomas Tuttle
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