From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: "Libershteyn, Vladimir" <vladimir.libershteyn@hp.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LINUX-KERNEL] Problem loading any custom driver
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 05:50:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1148269847.3902.57.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1FB1F81B4767FC48A2AF2278D735CE64038BFC5C@cacexc05.americas.cpqcorp.net>
On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 20:42 -0700, Libershteyn, Vladimir wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I need a help on understanding and possible resolution on a problem I have while trying to load driver(s) to a server running Linux_IA32_RH_EL4_Update3 either AS or WS
> I have a few (actually four) device drivers for different type of devices.
> These drivers compile and run fine on any 2.4.x kernels for both desktops/workstations and servers.
> The same drivers run fine on desktops/workstations and on slected servers, like IA64 Itanium servers, AMD64 servers, however I can't make it run on IA32 servers.
> I've noticed one common among all IA32 servers drivers won't run. All of them have dual processors motherboard with only one processor installed.
> The actual problem is: the first kernel function call from the driver (I'm running "insmod drivername" that calls driver_init function) cause kernel to panic.
> I believe the problem is either with kernel configuration/setup or with development environment configuration/setup.
> Any help/ideas are greatly appretiated. Below are part of a source code and related part of /var/log/messages. Please let me know if more information needed
>
> Regards,
you forgot to put a URL to your source code.......
however it strongly points towards a broken Makefile on your side.... if
we'd have that URL I could say for sure ..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-22 3:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-18 23:25 [PATCH 0/2] tpm: bios log parsing fixes Seiji Munetoh
2006-05-22 3:42 ` [LINUX-KERNEL] Problem loading any custom driver Libershteyn, Vladimir
2006-05-22 3:50 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-05-22 4:05 ` Libershteyn, Vladimir
2006-05-22 4:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-22 5:30 ` Libershteyn, Vladimir
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