Re: initcall at ... returned with error code -19 (Was: Re: 2.6.16-rc5-mm2)

["Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>]

On 3/6/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 3/3/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc5/2.6.16-rc5-mm2/
> > >
> >
> > With this kernel I sometimes get :
> >   initcall at 0xc0432790: rng_init+0x0/0xa0(): returned with error code -19
> > and sometimes :
> >   initcall at 0xc0428240: init_hpet_clocksource+0x0/0x90(): returned
> > with error code -19
> >
> > I haven't paid enough attention to be able to say if some boots had
> > other variations, but at least the two above have been observed.
> >
>
> That's OK - it's -ENODEV.  It's saying "hey, you linked this driver into
> vmlinux but it didn't find any hardware to drive".
>

Hmm, then perhaps we should make the warnings print some slightly less
"bad things happening" looking string...
As it is it looks very much like something bad is going on, so I
predict it will generate a lot of bug reports in the future if left in
its current form.

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