FS#11699 - lirc and kernel 2.6.27: oops during module loading

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Filip Wojciechowski (fwojciec) - Friday, 10 October 2008, 19:51 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Saturday, 11 October 2008, 21:04 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

After upgrading to the latest kernel and lirc packages (see below for version info) I get a kernel oops during udev module loading stage of the boot routine. I wish I could post some debugging info, but I can't find the actual error message in any of the logs.

After some googling I found the following message/patch which seems to address the same or similar problem:
http://www.nabble.com/-PATCH--sync-to-2.6.27-API-change-(fixes-oops)-td19699277.html
The patch doesn't apply cleanly to the lirc 0.8.3 source, unfortunately.

It is, in either case, definitely something to do with the lirc package, because I can boot without problems if I disconnect the irda receiver. For now my fix for this is to upgrade lirc package to 0.8.4pre2 version of the source.

Please let me know if there is some additional information that I can provide about this problem.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
kernel26 2.6.27-1
lirc 0.8.3-2

Steps to reproduce:
Update kernel and lirc packages to the latest versions from testing and reboot (the problem could be hardware specific, I'm not sure).
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Saturday, 11 October 2008, 21:04 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Filip Wojciechowski (fwojciec) - Saturday, 11 October 2008, 20:47 GMT
Another user seems to be having the same problem I'm having -- see post #2 in this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56724
The irda receiver I'm using is also mceusb2.

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