Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932395AbWCFWNi (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2006 17:13:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932396AbWCFWNi (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2006 17:13:38 -0500 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.204]:64373 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932395AbWCFWNh convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2006 17:13:37 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=o4z12cK8F6JAAHm/AwcipXMeb/YEcFaFdqmj90EjUb85B3QknsqOR/uNl3WNVfl848TQTxJY5W0ajI9bJZir9II9QrcrLGvk9ARq8WNzJwcSr7fa6UM6Nf4OFzItjA+pU216osKn3klkPhEGcsXFB1PzCQieIQEqh3p4wUhbDQE= Message-ID: <9a8748490603061413s3a27c932qfbf2b89c811ca491@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 23:13:36 +0100 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: "Andrew Morton" Subject: Re: initcall at ... returned with error code -19 (Was: Re: 2.6.16-rc5-mm2) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060306140851.4140ae2b.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <9a8748490603061359r64655a45i9a26e1f92009c7bf@mail.gmail.com> <20060306140851.4140ae2b.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1468 Lines: 37 On 3/6/06, Andrew Morton wrote: > "Jesper Juhl" wrote: > > > > On 3/3/06, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc5/2.6.16-rc5-mm2/ > > > > > > > With this kernel I sometimes get : > > initcall at 0xc0432790: rng_init+0x0/0xa0(): returned with error code -19 > > and sometimes : > > initcall at 0xc0428240: init_hpet_clocksource+0x0/0x90(): returned > > with error code -19 > > > > I haven't paid enough attention to be able to say if some boots had > > other variations, but at least the two above have been observed. > > > > That's OK - it's -ENODEV. It's saying "hey, you linked this driver into > vmlinux but it didn't find any hardware to drive". > Hmm, then perhaps we should make the warnings print some slightly less "bad things happening" looking string... As it is it looks very much like something bad is going on, so I predict it will generate a lot of bug reports in the future if left in its current form. -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/