success 2.4.0-test8 with latest bk

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Martin Costabel wrote:
> Andreas Tobler wrote:
> > I want to express my thanks to you including Geert's pci-res patch, now
> > I'm able again to run the latest devel tree from bk on my ancient 7200
> > with it's 2940UW.
> > It is running since three h.
>
> You are lucky. For me it stops booting after the "freeing unused kernel
> memory" line. The one from 2 days ago had 2 days uptime.

Usually this means that some function/data is marked __init while it must not.
Quick verification: #undef __init / #define __init etc.

Just wondering: wouldn't it be possible to write some tool to find such bugs?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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