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Date:	Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:24:29 +0200
From:	"J.A. Magallón" <jamagallon@....com>
To:	Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.27-git3: rtl8169 oops and wireless missing symbols

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:12:28 -0700 (PDT), David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:

> From: "J.A. Magallón" <jamagallon@....com>
> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:02:02 +0200
> 
> > Booting .27-git3 on the Aspire One gave me a couple oopses.
> 
> Fixed by:
> 
> commit 738e1e694bf6d9e965ba0ce2667a1bec5780a172
> Author: Petr Vandrovec <petr@...drovec.name>
> Date:   Sun Oct 12 20:58:29 2008 -0700
> 
>     r8169: NULL pointer dereference on r8169 load
>     
>     mmio_addr in r8169 needs to be initialized before use
>     
>     Maybe that all tp-> initialization should be moved before rtl_init_mac_address call,
>     but this is enough to get rid of crash in rtl_rar_set due to mmio_addr being uninitialized.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Petr Vandrovec <petr@...drovec.name>
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/r8169.c b/drivers/net/r8169.c
> index bdae2c5..c821da2 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/r8169.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/r8169.c
> @@ -2154,6 +2154,8 @@ rtl8169_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
>  
>  	spin_lock_init(&tp->lock);
>  
> +	tp->mmio_addr = ioaddr;
> +
>  	rtl_init_mac_address(tp, ioaddr);
>  
>  	/* Get MAC address */
> @@ -2186,7 +2188,6 @@ rtl8169_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
>  #endif
>  
>  	tp->intr_mask = 0xffff;
> -	tp->mmio_addr = ioaddr;
>  	tp->align = cfg->align;
>  	tp->hw_start = cfg->hw_start;
>  	tp->intr_event = cfg->intr_event;
>

Thanks, this cured the rtl8169 part.
More problems with mmc on the go...

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