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Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 19:10:07 -0800
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Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Kernel Oops on cat /proc/ioports
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Matt wrote:
> 
> speaking of living in module memory, a similar thing happens with the
> via-rhine driver. after my machine has been up for a few hours the
> "via-rhine" string in /proc/iomem and /proc/ioports gets over written
> and prints garbage. since this has never been the cause for an oops on
> my machine i never bothered reporting it. if anyone wants details i'll
> provide.
> 

I think it _could_ oops.  Would it be correct to assume that
you're linking the driver into the kernel, rather than using it
as a module?

--- linux-2.4.17-pre8/drivers/net/via-rhine.c	Mon Dec 10 13:46:21 2001
+++ linux-akpm/drivers/net/via-rhine.c	Tue Dec 11 19:08:17 2001
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ static char version[] __devinitdata =
 KERN_INFO "via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.1.12  03/11/2001  Written by Donald Becker\n"
 KERN_INFO "  http://www.scyld.com/network/via-rhine.html\n";
 
-static char shortname[] __devinitdata = "via-rhine";
+static char shortname[] = "via-rhine";
 
 
 /* This driver was written to use PCI memory space, however most versions
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