Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 14:13:31 -0400
From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
To: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, davej@suse.de
Subject: Re: 2.5.69-mm5: pccard oops while booting: resolved
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> 1. Simply by changing KOBJ_NAME_LEN from 20 to 16 fixes the problem.
> This leads me to think there are some parts of the kernel (a driver, to
> be more exact) that are corrupting memory or doing something really
> nasty that is affecting PCI ID's tables and pci_bus_match() function.

Are you sure you have a pristine source and everything is rebuilt
against the new header? It'd be very easy for one object file to have the
incorrect name len and cause this problem.

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