Re: Linux 2.6.3-rc1

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Monday 09 of February 2004 03:40, Andre Tomt wrote:
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > Ok thanks, I got the same dump.  I think the problem is that memory used
> > by previously registered ide_pci_host_proc_list entry (for pdc202xx_new
> > driver) is already unmapped because of __initdata in pdc202xx_new.h.
> > (This doesn't happen in built-in case because this memory is freed after
> > all drivers are initialized.)
> >
> > Does this patch help?
>
> Ahh, indeed it does, _but_
>
> pdc202xx_old seems to have the same bug, making via82cxxx crash later on
> instead.
>
> Doing the same change to pdc202xx_old.h (removing __initdata) fixes this
> case too :-)

Yes, __initdata needs to be removed from every ide_pci_proc_host_t.
I will make a patch and submit it to Linus.

Thanks!
--bart

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