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| author | Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net> | 2010-12-11 12:31:45 -0300 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2010-12-29 08:17:09 -0200 |
| commit | fa98447f09641adeeaf02b94133649f03b74d159 (patch) | |
| tree | 16475f6d407f1c9802b126138a471605f30100a8 /drivers/media/video/cx18 | |
| parent | 0a58d713062fb49952b9b082514a48a0c83b269d (diff) | |
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[media] ivtv, cx18: Make ioremap failure messages more useful for users
The error messages these drivers emitted for ioremap() failures
were misleading and not helpful for users. Reworded those messages
to help the user take action to resolve vmalloc address space
exhaustion.
Signed-off-by: Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/media/video/cx18')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-driver.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-driver.c b/drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-driver.c index 98ac2e9..676e5be 100644 --- a/drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-driver.c +++ b/drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-driver.c @@ -925,8 +925,13 @@ static int __devinit cx18_probe(struct pci_dev *pci_dev, cx->enc_mem = ioremap_nocache(cx->base_addr + CX18_MEM_OFFSET, CX18_MEM_SIZE); if (!cx->enc_mem) { - CX18_ERR("ioremap failed, perhaps increasing __VMALLOC_RESERVE in page.h\n"); - CX18_ERR("or disabling CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G into the kernel would help\n"); + CX18_ERR("ioremap failed. Can't get a window into CX23418 " + "memory and register space\n"); + CX18_ERR("Each capture card with a CX23418 needs 64 MB of " + "vmalloc address space for the window\n"); + CX18_ERR("Check the output of 'grep Vmalloc /proc/meminfo'\n"); + CX18_ERR("Use the vmalloc= kernel command line option to set " + "VmallocTotal to a larger value\n"); retval = -ENOMEM; goto free_mem; } |