linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fix verify_dynamic_kobject

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Date:	Wed, 6 Aug 2008 16:52:37 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix verify_dynamic_kobject_allocation()

On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 04:00:18PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> The warn-when-statically-allocated-kobjects-are-used patch crashes my
> machine during boot when it calls kzalloc(), presumably because the
> call occurs too early.  This patch (as1126) fixes it by using a static
> string instead of a dynamically-allocated string.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>

I just took andrew's version of this patch, sorry for the oops.

thanks,

greg k-h
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