Thanks Dave. I actually figured that one out a couple days ago. :) It was already included in the kcopyd patch I sent to akpm on Monday. Check the lkml archives for "[PATCH] DM 1/5: Create/destroy kcopyd on demand". On Thursday 17 June 2004 3:18 pm, Dave Olien wrote: > kcopyd_init() has been changed from an __init routine to being called > kcopyd_client_create(). But the jobs_init() call accidentally remained > an __init call. This leads to problems. This just removes the __init > from the jobs_init() declaration. > > diff -ur linux-2.6.7-rc3-udm1-original/drivers/md/kcopyd.c > linux-2.6.7-rc3-udm1-patch1/drivers/md/kcopyd.c --- > linux-2.6.7-rc3-udm1-original/drivers/md/kcopyd.c 2004-06-16 > 10:15:37.000000000 -0700 +++ > linux-2.6.7-rc3-udm1-patch1/drivers/md/kcopyd.c 2004-06-17 > 13:08:59.000000000 -0700 @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ > static LIST_HEAD(_io_jobs); > static LIST_HEAD(_pages_jobs); > > -static int __init jobs_init(void) > +static int jobs_init(void) > { > _job_cache = kmem_cache_create("kcopyd-jobs", > sizeof(struct kcopyd_job), -- Kevin Corry kevcorry@xxxxxxxxxx http://evms.sourceforge.net/