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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 14:08:17 +0100 (BST)
From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
To: Mark Thomson <MarkTT@excite.com>
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Subject: Re: kernel BUG at slab.c:1062!
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On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Mark Thomson wrote:
> 
> I have a Motorola SM56 PCI modem, and I got the following error when doing
> 'insmod sm56'.
> The sm56 module used to work for all 2.4 kernels prior to kernel 2.4.6. (It
> can be found at
> http://e-www.motorola.com/products/softmodem/support/software.html#linux)
> 
> Using /lib/modules/2.4.6/kernel/drivers/char/sm56.o
> kernel BUG at slab.c:1062!

Someone posted a similar problem (with another driver) earlier on:
you must recompile the module for 2.4.6, changes in the GFP_ mask
definitions mean the old module is incompatible with the new kernel.

Hugh

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