Massive problems with 2.4.20 module loading

Hello Marcelo, hello world,

I'm having massive problems with Linux 2.4.20 and modul loading. In fact, it seems to have something to do with devfs. Everytime i try to load a module which is supposed to create something new in /dev, i get an Oops. I noticed that behaviour with vmware-module and now also with ALSA 0.9.0rc6. Is there a fix available for this yet?

Call trace (ksymoops):

EIP: 0010:[<c01185d5>] Not tainted
Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386
EFLAGS: 00010046
eax: ddb67b34 ebx: 00000000 ecx: d3a13ef8 edx: d3a13ef0
esi: 00000246 edi: 00000000 ebp: ddb67a00 esp: d3a13eb8
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process xmms (pid: 4406, stackpage=d3a13000)

Stack: d3a13ef0 ddb67b34 e292e6ea d70acb40 dba8c640 df6fb040 dba8c648 d309eec0 
       d309eed8 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000003 d309eec0 00000000 d3a12000 
       d309eec0 d369a940 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 c017e500 e292c000 
Call Trace:    [<e292e6ea>] [<c017e500>] [<c017f19f>] [<c014314e>] [<c01386a3>]
  [<c01385c7>] [<c0138963>] [<c010737f>]
Code: 89 4b 04 89 5a 08 89 41 04 89 08 56 9d 8b 1c 24 8b 74 24 04 

Trace; e292e6ea <[snd-pcm-oss]snd_pcm_oss_open+17a/250> Trace; c017e500 <devfs_get_ops+60/90>
Trace; c017f19f <devfs_open+13f/1a0>
Trace; c014314e <vfs_permission+7e/140>
Trace; c01386a3 <dentry_open+d3/1d0>
Trace; c01385c7 <filp_open+67/70>
Trace; c0138963 <sys_open+53/a0>
Trace; c010737f <system_call+33/38>

Code; c01185d5 <add_wait_queue+15/30>
00000000 <_EIP>:
Code; c01185d5 <add_wait_queue+15/30> <=====
0: 89 4b 04 mov %ecx,0x4(%ebx) <=====
Code; c01185d8 <add_wait_queue+18/30>
3: 89 5a 08 mov %ebx,0x8(%edx)
Code; c01185db <add_wait_queue+1b/30>
6: 89 41 04 mov %eax,0x4(%ecx)
Code; c01185de <add_wait_queue+1e/30>
9: 89 08 mov %ecx,(%eax)
Code; c01185e0 <add_wait_queue+20/30>
b: 56 push %esi
Code; c01185e1 <add_wait_queue+21/30>
c: 9d popf
Code; c01185e2 <add_wait_queue+22/30>
d: 8b 1c 24 mov (%esp,1),%ebx
Code; c01185e5 <add_wait_queue+25/30>
10: 8b 74 24 04 mov 0x4(%esp,1),%esi

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Linux 2,4.20 doesnt include vmware or ALSA. The fact you list those modules alone suggests that the problem is that you haven't rebuilt them for the new kernel