Re: pcihpfs problems in 2.4.19

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 04:18:02PM -0400, Scott Murray wrote:
> I just started testing the cPCI hotplug driver I'm working on against
> 2.4.19 after upgrading the kernel in SOMA's in-house distribution,
> and I'm now getting the attached oops code when trying to access the
> pcihpfs (e.g. with ls) after mounting it.  I backed out the couple of
> changes I made last night that might have been remotely connected
> (added hardware_test and get_power_status hotplug ops in my driver),
> and I'm still getting it in the same place, so it looks like maybe a
> VFS change somewhere in 2.4.19 broke pcihpfs.  Any ideas?

Hm, I just verified this on one of my machines, but a different one
(ia64 box) works just fine.  I'll dig and try to find the problem later
on today.  As a side note, someone who based their code off of pcihpfs
also has the same problem, so I think it's some vfs change that I didn't
catch.

thanks,

greg k-h