From: Martin Costabel <costabel@wanadoo.fr>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Benh-2.4.4-pre3 kills linuxconf
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 17:31:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AEED6C9.DE676BB3@wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20010419201234.23660@smtp.wanadoo.fr
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> >For a long time, I have been using linuxconf to switch between home and
> >office configurations on my iBook. This worked up to kernel version
> >2.4.4-pre1 (rsynced from the benh tree on April 12). With 2.4.4-pre3,
> >rsynced yesterday, linuxconf doesn't work any more. When I type
> >"linuxconf", it just sits there and waits, doing nothing. When I stop it
> >with ^C, then subsequent calls of linuxconf come back immediately saying
> >"Broken pipe." The kernel config is the same in both cases.
> >
> >Has anyone seen this?
>
> No, but I don't use linuxconf...
I found a small patch for kernel/fork.c on the linux-kernel mailing list
that solves this problem. It seems that others consider the change to
this file that occurred between 2.4.4-pre1 and pre3 a bug, too.
--
Martin
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-19 19:53 Benh-2.4.4-pre3 kills linuxconf Martin Costabel
2001-04-19 20:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-05-01 15:31 ` Martin Costabel [this message]
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