From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3AEED6C9.DE676BB3@wanadoo.fr> Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 17:31:21 +0200 From: Martin Costabel MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Benh-2.4.4-pre3 kills linuxconf References: <3ADF422F.CBC1EC7@wanadoo.fr> <20010419201234.23660@smtp.wanadoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/