Re: sema_init fail in 2.6

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On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 03:13:43AM +0700, Iwan Budi Kusnanto wrote:
> Hello, i recently porting my driver from 2.4.35 to 2.6.X kernel.
> I meet some strange behaviour with sema_init. This is the code snippet
> 
> /**
>  * this code is compiled & working in 2.4 kernel.
>  * Compiled in 2.6 but fail in module initialization.

How does it fail?  What error messages do you get?

>  */
> static struct semaphore sem_fail;
> 
> static init __init my_module_init_fail(void)
> {
>         sema_init (&sem_fail, 1);
> }
> 
> /**
>  * this code compiled & work in 2.6
>  */
> struct semaphore *sem;
> 
> static init __init my_module_init(void)
> {
>         sem = (struct semaphore *) kmalloc (sizeof (struct semaphore
> ), GFP_KERNEL);
>         sema_init (sem, 1);
> }
> 
> Any idea?
> Thx
> 
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