Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 21:31:09 -0800
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc1 kernel init oops
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On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:44:36 -0800 Greg KH wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 04:57:32PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > furthermore, this happens on 2.6.16-rc1 and 2.6.16-rc1-git4,
> > but <platform_notify> is not at the same memory address in
> > my builds, so it smells more like a bad ptr reference
> > somewhere than like bad memory IMO.
> 
> Hm, can you do a git bisect from 2.6.15 to 2.6.16-rc1 to see if you can
> find this?

follow-up:  for now I guess I'll blame the oopsen that I was seeing
on a bad compiler or just karma.  I don't have proof except that
I installed a new distro + gcc and no longer can cause/create the
problems.  (was using gcc 3.4.3 from Mandriva 2005)

thanks,
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~Randy
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