From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 21 12:00:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA03511 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 12:00:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agni.nuko.com ([206.79.130.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA03494 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 12:00:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from vinay@localhost) by agni.nuko.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id LAA03148 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 11:58:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Vinay Bannai Message-Id: <199707211858.LAA03148@agni.nuko.com> Subject: Kernel panic in driver probe() routine To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 11:58:10 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hey folks, Is it a bad thing to free up memory in the probe() routine for a pci driver in the event of something going wrong? It appears that whenever I do that the kernel panics saying page fault in kernel mode I have seen other probe() routines for other drivers do that. Thanks Vinay -- Vinay Bannai E-mail: vinay@agni.nuko.com (408)-526-0280 x 275 (Work) http://agni.nuko.com/~vinay