Re: 2.5.4-pre1 (decoded) oops on boot in device_create_file

[Alessandro Suardi]

Patrick Mochel wrote:
> 
> On 7 Feb 2002, Peter Osterlund wrote:
> 
> > Alessandro Suardi <[e-mail]> writes:
> >
> > > Must be my time of the year - first the kmem_cache_create one in
> > >  2.5.3-pre[45], now this one (should happen about PCI allocation
> > >  of one of the Xircom CardBus resources):
> >
> > I had the same problem with 2.5.4-pre2. The patch below makes my
> > laptop able to boot again, but I don't know if the patch is correct.
> 
> That looks ok, since cardbus behaves internally much like PCI.
> 
> I'll check if there's anything else that needs to happen.

In the meantime I can confirm Peter's fix makes my laptop boot again :)

> Btw, thanks - I missed the original email in the sea of all the rest ;)

Uhm - well I could have directly addressed you as owner of the area
 changes, so my fault.

Thanks,
 
--alessandro

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