From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756577Ab0GLSik (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:38:40 -0400 Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:34065 "EHLO rcsinet10.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754061Ab0GLSij (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:38:39 -0400 Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:37:43 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: Lee Jones Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Upstream] Stop ARM boards crashing with CUPS is loaded Message-Id: <20100712113743.c95d49dc.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <4C3B071D.10505@gmail.com> References: <4C3B071D.10505@gmail.com> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.16.6; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: acsmt353.oracle.com [141.146.40.153] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090209.4C3B6106.0099:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:14:21 +0100 Lee Jones wrote: > Please find attached a patch which rectifies the following bug. > > When CUPS loads, it tries to load several drivers that it may need. > When one of these drivers, specifically parport_pc is loaded on ARM > based systems, it causes a segmentation fault as the address is not > writable on non-PC based architectures. This code prevents this > driver from being compiled on said architectures. Do you have any specific information on where the segfault occurs? and please read /Documentation/SubmittingPatches and possibly Documentation/email-clients.txt . thanks, --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***