Re: 2.5.70-bk radeonfb oops on boot.

From: Simon Fowler (simon@himi.org)
Date: Wed Jun 11 2003 - 00:05:40 EST

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 09:16:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Simon Fowler <simon@himi.org> wrote:
> >
> > > > >
> > > > > It might be worth reverting this chunk, see if that fixes it:
> > > > >
> > > > > --- b/drivers/char/mem.c Thu Jun 5 23:36:40 2003
> > > > > +++ b/drivers/char/mem.c Sun Jun 8 05:02:24 2003
> > > > > @@ -716 +716 @@
> > > > > -__initcall(chr_dev_init);
> > > > > +subsys_initcall(chr_dev_init);
> > > > >
> > > > And we have a winner . . . Reverting this hunk fixes the oops.
> > > >
<snippage>
> Thanks for testing.
>
> All the initcall ordering of chardevs versus pci, pci versus pci and who
> knows what else is all bollixed up.
>
> Unfortunately I do not have the bandwidth to work on this.

Since this seems to be a showstopper for people using radeonfb,
getting the 'fix' above in might be a good idea . . .

Simon 

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