Re: 2.5.69-mm5: pccard oops while booting: resolved

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 20:13, Ben Collins wrote:
> > 1. Simply by changing KOBJ_NAME_LEN from 20 to 16 fixes the problem.
> > This leads me to think there are some parts of the kernel (a driver, to
> > be more exact) that are corrupting memory or doing something really
> > nasty that is affecting PCI ID's tables and pci_bus_match() function.

> Are you sure you have a pristine source and everything is rebuilt
> against the new header? It'd be very easy for one object file to have the
> incorrect name len and cause this problem.

I'm 200% sure:

1. tar jxvf linux-2.5.69.tar.bz2
2. zcat 2.5.69-mm6.gz | patch  -p1
3. make menuconfig

There is something in the Yamaha DS-XG PCI driver (I think the problem
lies in alsa_card_ymfpci_init()) that is somewhat corrupting the PCI
ID's table, or something else, that's causing the pci_bus_match()
function to oops.

I'm no kernel expert, so I've been unable to guess much more than this.