On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:33:15PM +0530, Felix Varghese wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to read some data via SPI on an a modified (custom SPI device > attached) AT91SAM9G20-EK board. If I pass a local array buffer, declared as > "char buffer[100];" as the rx_buf pointer for the spi transfer, the code works > fine. But if I just change the declaration to "static char buffer[100]" > instead, I get the following crash: Don't statically allocate memory for spi, you need to dynamically allocate it with 'kmalloc'. The fact that the first time didn't crash for you was just lucky. hope this helps, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
