Re: kernel panic

[Robert Hancock]

manomugdha biswas wrote:
> Hi,
> I am using the following makefile and the .c file to
> generate a kernel module. I can load this module
> without error and warning. But when I call ioctl()
> from user application to run this module it gets
> kernel panic!

I think there's something wrong with the way you're using the wait queue 
(they're not normally instantiated as local variables on the stack, for 
one thing). It looks like you're just using it to create a delay, in 
that case use schedule_timeout, msleep, etc.

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