Krzysztof Helt wrote, > Could you give name of the function which contains this endless loop? > When I looked into the tree.c file for the first time I thought > it had a bug > in handling the prom_nextprop, but later I concluded that this is ok. > Maybe there is a bug there after all. if I understood it correctly the following functions are called in this order: * prom_init() # arch/sparc/kernel/head.S [...] * create_node() # arch/sparc/kernel/prom.c * build_prop_list() # arch/sparc/kernel/prom.c * build_one_prop() # arch/sparc/kernel/prom.c * prom_nextprop() # arch/sparc/prom/tree.c * __prom_nextprop() # arch/sparc/prom/tree.c * prom_nodeops->no_nextprop() # PROM And this loops while getting the attributes/properties of the /aliases node. Greetings, Markus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
