| Hi, On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Duncan Haldane wrote:
| I am the current maintainer of the cpia webcam driver. | | I am tracking down a kernel Oops in 2.4.20-rc1 that was first | introduced in 2.4.13 by usb semaphore locking changes in usb.c, | and which was reported a while back on this list. See: | http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0208.1/1504.html | The Ooops occurs when the system boots if usb, video4linux , | cpia and cpia_usb are compiled into the kernel. | There is no problem if they are compiled as modules. | | | No changes in the cpia drivers occurred when the Ooops was | introduced in 2.4.13. usb_cpia-init() in drivers/media/video/cpia_usb.c | calls usb_register() in drivers/usb/usb.c to register itself. \ | usb_register() calls usb_scan_devices(). The Oops occurs when | the usb list is locked in usb_scan_devices(), by a call to | " down (&usb_bus_list_lock);". | The result is: "Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at | virtual address 00000000","Oops: 0002". It's good to have this info, but do you also have the decoded Oops (ksymoops output)? I'd like to see the code sequence etc., unless someone else just posts a patch first. :) | If I comment out the lock, things work again. (no OOPS, cpa works). | So the problem is isolated. Whats the fix? | | | Assuming this is a usb.c problem , I'm out of my depth here. | | | Or should some new entries to initialize something be added to | the "static struct usb_driver cpia_driver" declaration in cpia_usb.c below? | Please give me some hints on what to fix if some new initialization | in cpia_usb.c is needed since the 2.4.13 usb semaphore changes. | | Thanks! | | Please cc me directly: | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also copying [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Thanks, -- ~Randy "I read part of it all the way through." -- Samuel Goldwyn ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel