On 2/7/08, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> (cc's restored, and expanded a bit)

Ah, sorry, not used to gmail's web interface. Clicked the wrong button.

> > Seems to be the advansys driver, so I tried to remove it - and indeed,
> > the kernel now boots. So I guess it's either that driver or my ancient
> > Nikon Coolscan II that is the only thing attached to the board.
>
> Thanks.  I uploaded the oops picture to
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/oops.jpg
>
> > Cc to the Matthew Wilcox added.
>
> mm...  looks like all Matthew's changes were in 2.6.23.  And 2.6.23 worked
> OK, yes?

Both 2.6.23 and 2.6.24 are ok.

> The only recent changes to drivers/scsi/advansys.c are
>
> commit b80ca4f7ee36c26d300c5a8f429e73372d153379
> Author: FUJITA Tomonori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date:   Sun Jan 13 15:46:13 2008 +0900
>
>     [SCSI] replace sizeof sense_buffer with SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE
>
>     This replaces sizeof sense_buffer with SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE in
>     several LLDs. It's a preparation for the future changes to remove
>     sense_buffer array in scsi_cmnd structure.
>
>     Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>     Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> :100644 100644 9dd3952... 492702b... M  drivers/scsi/advansys.c
>
> commit 747d016e7e25e216b31022fe2b012508d99fb682
> Author: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date:   Mon Jan 14 00:55:18 2008 -0800
>
>     advansys: fix section mismatch warning
>
>     Fix section mismatch warning:
>
>     WARNING: vmlinux.o(.exit.text+0x152a): Section mismatch: reference to 
> .init.
>
>     Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>     Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>     Cc: James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>     Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>     Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> which seem fairly benign.
>
>
> gcc inlining is going to make it rather a lot of work to find out which
> statement has actually oopsed there.
-- 
Hilsen Harald
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