Re: 2.5.70-bk radeonfb oops on boot.

[Simon Fowler]

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On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 09:16:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Simon Fowler <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >
> > > > >=20
> > > > > It might be worth reverting this chunk, see if that fixes it:
> > > > >=20
> > > > > --- b/drivers/char/mem.c        Thu Jun  5 23:36:40 2003
> > > > > +++ b/drivers/char/mem.c        Sun Jun  8 05:02:24 2003
> > > > > @@ -716 +716 @@
> > > > > -__initcall(chr_dev_init);
> > > > > +subsys_initcall(chr_dev_init);
> > > > >=20
> > > > And we have a winner . . . Reverting this hunk fixes the oops.
> > > >=20
<snippage>=20
> Thanks for testing.
>=20
> All the initcall ordering of chardevs versus pci, pci versus pci and who
> knows what else is all bollixed up.
>=20
> Unfortunately I do not have the bandwidth to work on this.

Since this seems to be a showstopper for people using radeonfb,
getting the 'fix' above in might be a good idea . . .

Simon

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