On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 06:48:29AM -0600, Philipp Rumpf wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 03:37:04PM +0300, Andrey Panin wrote: > > Attached patch (2.4.2-ac11) makes some changes in serial driver: > > adds ioremap() return code checks, removes panic() calls > > and adds better error handling in start_pci_pnp_board() function. > > Did you test it ? Partially (without my ISAPNP modem, lack of ISA slots) > > > diff -u /linux.vanilla/drivers/char/serial.c /linux/drivers/char/serial.c > > --- /linux.vanilla/drivers/char/serial.c Thu Mar 1 20:15:43 2001 > > +++ /linux/drivers/char/serial.c Fri Mar 2 00:10:29 2001 > > @@ -3876,7 +3876,10 @@ > > return 0; > > } > > req->io_type = SERIAL_IO_MEM; > > - req->iomem_base = ioremap(port, board->uart_offset); > > + if ((req->iomem_base = ioremap(port, board->uart_offset))) { > > + printk(KERN_ERR "serial: Couldn's remap IO memory at %#lx\n", port); > > + return 1; > > + } > > This seems wrong. ioremap returns NULL in case of failure. Of course it's a typo, stupid me :(( What about attached patch ? -- Andrey Panin | Embedded systems software engineer pazke@orbita1.ru | PGP key: http://www.orbita1.ru/~pazke/AndreyPanin.asc