Hi, I diagnosed the reason behind the system hang. Actually the members of device structure were getting corrupted. The code works fine in linux 2.2 but I am surprised why the memory gets corrupted in linux 2.4.18. Regards, Anj ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bryson" <david@futuretel.com> To: "Anjaneyulu" <anjaneyulu@mistralsoftware.com> Cc: <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 11:24 PM Subject: Re: System hang caused by pci_read_config_dword() > make sure your not trying to read the value into an unallocated > pointer. I boneheadedly did this and was banging my head for 20 minutes > over it. > Dave > > On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 22:03, Anjaneyulu wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to know the reason for system hang when I access a configuration register of a PCI Device using pci_read_config_dword(). > > I am working on Linux 2.4.18. > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Regards, > > Anj > > > > > > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
