netdev - Re: 2.6.33 dies on modprobe

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Message-ID: <20100301090708.GF17929@forwiss.uni-passau.de>
Date:	Mon, 1 Mar 2010 10:07:08 +0100
From:	M G Berberich <berberic@....uni-passau.de>
To:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.33 dies on modprobe

Hello,

Am Montag, den 01. März schrieb Américo Wang:
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 6:12 AM, M G Berberich
> <berberic@....uni-passau.de> wrote:

> > I tried to build a 2.6.33 kernel but on boot it dies on modprobe
> > (kernel-Oops). This might be the result of faulty config, but I'm
> > totaly clueless what's the fault.
> >
> > The kernel starts up fine and mounts the root-filesystem, but then
> > dies on the first modprobe executed. I can boot it with init=/bin/bash
> > and get a working bash (until I do modprobe on any module).
> >
> > System is a Gigabyte M55S-S3 rev 2.0 (nForce 550) with an AMD Athlon64
> > X2 5000+ and amd64-kernel architecture. kernel-sources are from
> > kernel.org.

> It seems something is wrong with forcedeth code or PCI code.
> Adding some Cc's.

I don't think it's forcedeth. forcedeth just happens to be the first
module that get's loaded in startup. It crashes with any other module
too (I tried ohci_hcd). 

To repeat myself: This might be the result of faulty config

	MfG
	bmg

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