From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 15:41:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 15:40:37 -0500 Received: from anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.89]:4362 "EHLO anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 15:38:18 -0500 Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 20:32:07 +0000 From: Alan Ford To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.4.17-pre2 & PCMCIA Errors Message-ID: <20011202203207.A1014@whirlnet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Just tried 2.4.17-pre2 (was previously on 2.4.16-pre1) and when pcmcia-cs is started on bootup, the following happens: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7 cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff:<1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004 printing eip: c0118781 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010206 eax: 00000000 ebx: cf57d988 ecx: 00000000 edx: a00fffff esi: a00fffff edi: a0000000 ebp: 00100000 esp: cf57d968 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process cardmgr (pid: 238, stackpage=cf57d000) Stack: cf57d988 a0000000 a0000000 c0118854 00000000 cf57d988 cfdc1bc0 a0000000 00000200 a0000000 a00fffff cfdc1bc0 c01bd035 a0000000 00100000 c01bd03e 00000000 a0000000 00100000 cfdc1bc0 00000000 cff4e000 c01badb4 a1000000 Call Trace: [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] Code: 3b 79 04 72 05 3b 71 08 76 05 89 c8 eb 29 90 8d 51 18 8b 02 If I run cardctl, I'll get the same error ("Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004") Can anybody enlighten me? Is this a kernel bug or have I got something misconfigured that just happened to work before (if so, can that "feature" be put back please? :) ) Am using Debian with pcmcia-cs 3.1.29-3. Laptop is a Dell Insprion 8K (CardBus controller is a TI PCI4451). -- Alan Ford * alan@whirlnet.co.uk