Still having problems with nftl_format

Ollie Lho ollie at sis.com.tw
Wed Apr 25 04:41:58 EDT 2001


"Carson, Jon A." wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> A while back ( April 9, 2001 ) , I reported a problem with nftl_format. I
> know you are busy, but I wanted to state the problem again and also add some
> new information.
> 
> The problem is that everything is nice until it gets to Phase 3 which deals
> with writing some data into the chip.
> 
> I plugged in some printf's that show the state of the variables of interest,
> before we drop into the "for" loop.  I also added a printf to the for loop
> in case something was sucessful.  Please note that the first time through
> the loop, the call to the "ioctl" was apparently sucessful.  Every call to
> the same ioctl after that failed with errno == 14  (Bad address) .  I have
> included an excerpt from the nftl_format.c showing the revesion level of the
> code that I am using.
> 

Did you CVS update and recompile BOTH the driver and nftl_format ?? The
problem is in a change in *Kernel Header* file. So you must update and
recompile everything.

Ollie


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