Bug 9689
| Summary: | hgafb module is broken & unmaintained | ||
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| Product: | Drivers | Reporter: | Roland Kletzing (devzero) |
| Component: | Console/Framebuffers | Assignee: | James Simmons (jsimmons) |
| Status: | RESOLVED CODE_FIX | ||
| Severity: | low | CC: | bunk |
| Priority: | P1 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Kernel Version: | 2.6.24-rc6 | Subsystem: | |
| Regression: | --- | Bisected commit-id: | |
pardon, i have chosen wrong component, so it was assigned to wrong person still applies for 2.6.25-rc8 I merged Krzysztof Helt's hgafb-convert-to-new-platform-driver-api-bugzilla-9689.patch which shodl address this. Closed. just for tracking, as the patch has been dropped due to two people adressing that at the same time :) http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=20080602193608.5173cdc0.krzysztof.h1%40poczta.fm |
Most recent kernel where this bug did not occur: ? Distribution: OpenSuSE 10.3 with 2.6.24-rc6 Hardware Environment: vmware workstation 6.x on fujitsu siemens lifebook e series Software Environment: ??? Problem Description: the module hgafb shows improper behaviour on unload and thus seems to be broken. (should either be fixed or depend on BROKEN then?) furthermore, the author tells that he doesn`t maintain it anymore, so at least MAINTAINERS file isn`t up to date and could be changed appropriately. this is the response from the author: >Dear Roland, >Thank you for pointing this problem. But I'm not maintaining the >driver because I've lost my HGA card in the year 2001. >Best regards, >Ferenc Bakonyi Steps to reproduce: modprobe hgafb;rmmod hgafb dmesg: hgafb: HGA card not detected. hgafb: probe of hgafb.0 failed with error -22 Device 'hgafb.0' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed. WARNING: at drivers/base/core.c:107 device_release() Pid: 2500, comm: rmmod Not tainted 2.6.24-rc6-vanilla #11 [<c01d2f23>] kobject_cleanup+0x24/0x41 [<c01d2f40>] kobject_release+0x0/0x8 [<c01d3b68>] kref_put+0x60/0x6d [<c02430c2>] platform_device_del+0x12/0x37 [<e0ad44f2>] hgafb_exit+0xa/0x14 [hgafb] [<c0144737>] sys_delete_module+0x187/0x1b4 [<c0166010>] remove_vma+0x36/0x3b [<c01669c0>] do_munmap+0x19b/0x1b4 [<c0104f52>] sysenter_past_esp+0x6b/0xa9 =======================