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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 21:34:58 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: OOPS in Kmalloc
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
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> Hello,
> i am getting OOPS in Kmalloc .
>
> void **data;
> qset = 1000;
>
> dptr->data = kmalloc(qset * sizeof(char *), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> what could the possible the cause of the error
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As I am so fond of saying, it's almost always correct to indicate what
kernel version one if referring to in a problem report.

Please decode the oops output and post it here.

~Randy