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-rw-r--r--drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-driver.c9
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 98ac2e935743..676e5bef89eb 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;
}