dmasound (wa: Re: Kernel 2.4.21)

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> On 30.07.03, you wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> >> On 30.07.03, you wrote:
> >>> Looks like a function call through a NULL pointer at
> >>> dmasound_init+908c/c0a0.
> 
> >> But what this exactly means? I'm sorry, but I don't understand. I have
> >> never used any debuging stuff other than printf()/printk()...
> 
> > dmasound_core calls the low-level chipset-specific routines through
> > function pointers. If one of them is not set up, it will jump to address
> > 0, causing a crash.
> 
> Ok. So why the same code did not crashed on kernel 2.4.18?

Does this patch fix your problem with dmasound?

http://linux-m68k-cvs.apia.dhs.org/~geert/linux-m68k-2.4.x-merging/117-dmasound.diff

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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