Re: 2.5.52 PNP failure

[Ruslan U. Zakirov]

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Richard A Nelson wrote:

> 
> Hand transcribed, so probably missing something important ...
> 
> Oops: 0000
> Eip:  0060:[<c01cdbf3>] Not tainted
> EIP is at compare_pnp_id+0x4f/0x78
> Call Trace:
> [<c01cfa43>] pnp_name_device+0x23/0x58
> [<c01cd9af>] __pnp_add_device+0xf/0xc8
> [<c01cdab4>] pnp_add_device+0x4c/0x54
> [<c010509b>] init+0x33/0x188
> [<c0105068>] init+0x0/0x188
> [<c0109211>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xc
> 
> <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
> 
Try this small patch. I think it'll help.
--- drivers/pnp/driver.c~       2002-12-20 02:15:30.000000000 +0300
+++ drivers/pnp/driver.c        2002-12-20 02:24:53.000000000 +0300
@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@
        if (!dev)
                return -EINVAL;
        ptr = dev->id;
+       id->next = NULL;
        while (ptr && ptr->next)
                ptr = ptr->next;
        if (ptr)
--
			Ruslan.