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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@pobox.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] 2.5.42 partial fix for older pl2303
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 22:52:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021015055211.GA11524@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021014041756.GD17162@ip68-4-86-174.oc.oc.cox.net>

On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 09:17:56PM -0700, Barry K. Nathan wrote:
> 
> followed by tons of these oopses (I think it's one per LCP echo
> request/reply pair on my PPP connection but I'm not sure):
> 
> Debug: sleeping function called from illegal context at
> include/asm/semaphore.h:119
> Call Trace:
>  [<c02095f7>] serial_write+0x77/0x170
>  [<c01da4e8>] ppp_async_push+0x138/0x1c0
>  [<c01da3a5>] ppp_async_send+0x45/0x50
>  [<c01d674e>] ppp_channel_push+0x7e/0x1a0
>  [<c01d548d>] ppp_write+0xfd/0x130
>  [<c013d67d>] vfs_write+0xcd/0x140
>  [<c013d78c>] sys_write+0x3c/0x60
>  [<c01075cb>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Heh, I didn't think that serial_write() would sleep, but I know the
pl2303 driver could have this problem.  But it's just a warning, I know
the usb-serial drivers have some issues regarding PPP.  Check the lkml
archives for a discussion about this only a week or so ago.

> Under 2.4.20-pre10 + my 2.4 fix, the device always gets ttyUSB0, and
> always works there.

Glad this is working.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-15  5:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-09 23:36 [BUG] pl2303 oops in 2.4.20-pre10 (and 2.5 too) Barry K. Nathan
2002-10-09 23:53 ` Greg KH
2002-10-11  2:39   ` Barry K. Nathan
     [not found]     ` <20021011170623.GB4123@kroah.com>
2002-10-12  6:30       ` Barry K. Nathan
2002-10-12 20:56         ` Barry K. Nathan
2002-10-13  0:42           ` [PATCH] 2.4.20-pre10: make PL-2303 hack work again Barry K. Nathan
2002-10-13  1:16             ` Greg KH
2002-10-13  1:54               ` Barry K. Nathan
2002-10-13  4:30               ` [PATCH/RFC] 2.5.42 partial fix for older pl2303 Barry K. Nathan
2002-10-13 20:25                 ` Greg KH
2002-10-14  2:49                   ` Barry K. Nathan
2002-10-14  4:17                     ` Barry K. Nathan
2002-10-15  5:52                       ` Greg KH [this message]
2002-10-13  0:49           ` [BUG] pl2303 oops in 2.4.20-pre10 (and 2.5 too) Greg KH
2002-10-13  1:26             ` Barry K. Nathan

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