On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 22:32 -0500, Andy Walls wrote: > Ron Andreasen <dlanor78@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >I've been having trouble getting distros that have any kernel above the > >3.5 > >series to boot (only tried 64-bit). I get a black screen with a bunch > >of > >text and the boot process goes no further. I don't know if this is > >usually > >okay, but I'm posting a link to a picture I took of my monitor with my > >cell > >phone. It's a bit blurry but hopefully it's still okay: > > > >http://imgur.com/viP1kWk,3YJXKbG > > > >The distros I've had this problem in are Kubuntu (I've tried several of > >the > >daily builds) which uses the 3.8.? (can't boot far enough to see) > >kernel, > >Cinnarch which uses the 3.7.3 kernel, and openSUSE 12.3 and I don't > >remember what version of the kernel that one used. > > > > > It looks like the ivtv module is failing to initialize, starts to > unload, and in the process of unloading, the cleanup path causes an > Ooops. > > I should have time to look closer at it this weekend. Test this patch (made against Kernel v3.8-rc5). Hopefully, it will fix the oops and then let you see why the ivtv_probe() function fails when initializing the PVR-150. Regards, Andy diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtv-driver.c b/drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtv-driver.c index df88dc4..de5db69 100644 --- a/drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtv-driver.c +++ b/drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtv-driver.c @@ -298,7 +298,6 @@ static void request_module_async(struct work_struct *work) static void request_modules(struct ivtv *dev) { - INIT_WORK(&dev->request_module_wk, request_module_async); schedule_work(&dev->request_module_wk); } @@ -307,6 +306,9 @@ static void flush_request_modules(struct ivtv *dev) flush_work_sync(&dev->request_module_wk); } #else +static void request_module_async(struct work_struct *work) +{ +} #define request_modules(dev) #define flush_request_modules(dev) #endif /* CONFIG_MODULES */ @@ -751,6 +753,8 @@ static int ivtv_init_struct1(struct ivtv *itv) spin_lock_init(&itv->lock); spin_lock_init(&itv->dma_reg_lock); + INIT_WORK(&itv->request_module_wk, request_module_async); + init_kthread_worker(&itv->irq_worker); itv->irq_worker_task = kthread_run(kthread_worker_fn, &itv->irq_worker, itv->v4l2_dev.name); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
