success 2.4.0-test8 with latest bk

Martin Costabel costabel at univ-rennes1.fr
Wed Sep 13 23:46:54 EST 2000


Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
> 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?

Update: After a recompilation with today's updates, the latest bk kernel
boots again for me.

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Martin

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