On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 01:06:25PM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote:
>George Georgalis <george@xxxxxxxxx> :
>[...]
>> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000000e4
>> printing eip:
>> c03034d6
>> *pde = 00000000
>> Oops: 0000 [#1]
>> PREEMPT
>> CPU: 0
>> EIP: 0060:[<c03034d6>] Not tainted
>> EFLAGS: 00010282 (2.6.8.1)
>> EIP is at velocity_netdev_event+0x16/0x50
>> eax: 00000000 ebx: c060b724 ecx: 00000000 edx: f7d7dd60
>> esi: f6d771e0 edi: 00000001 ebp: 0100007f esp: f6ccdeb4
>> ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
>> Process ifconfig (pid: 328, threadinfo=f6ccc000 task=f6ca80d0)
>
>You may apply on top of your 2.6.8.1 kernel:
>http://www.fr.zoreil.com/people/francois/misc/20040815-2.6.8-via-velocity-test.patch
>
>It will sync the via-velocity driver with the one in 2.6.8-rc4-mm1.
>It is supposed to fix this issue.
>
>Once the patch is applied, it will be interesting to know if CONFIG_SUPEND
>makes a difference or not.
>
>Please add netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx to the Cc:
...that patch doesn't build
26674 Aug 15 06:51 ../20040815-2.6.8-via-velocity-test.patch
$ cd linux-2.6.8.1-via-velocity-test/
$ patch -p1 <../20040815-2.6.8-via-velocity-test.patch
patching file drivers/net/via-velocity.h
patching file drivers/net/via-velocity.c
$ make bzImage
make[1]: `arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s' is up to date.
CHK include/linux/compile.h
OUI2C drivers/ieee1394/oui.c
CC drivers/ieee1394/oui.o
LD drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394.o
LD drivers/ieee1394/built-in.o
CC drivers/net/via-velocity.o
drivers/net/via-velocity.c:310: error: `PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_612X' undeclared here
(not in a function)
drivers/net/via-velocity.c:310: error: initializer element is not constant
drivers/net/via-velocity.c:310: error: (near initialization for
`velocity_id_table[0].device')
drivers/net/via-velocity.c:311: error: initializer element is not constant
drivers/net/via-velocity.c:311: error: (near initialization for
`velocity_id_table[0]')
drivers/net/via-velocity.c:312: error: initializer element is not constant
drivers/net/via-velocity.c:312: error: (near initialization for
`velocity_id_table[1]')
make[2]: *** [drivers/net/via-velocity.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [drivers/net] Error 2
make: *** [drivers] Error 2
Also note, I don't actually have one of these devices to test, I only
included it in case I come across one.
// George
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