Re: Hang problem on Tyan K7 Thunder resolved -- SB Live! heads-up

Manuel McLure
2001-08-12T22:55:28Z

On 2001.08.12 15:24 Linus Torvalds wrote:
> In article <20010812145953.A955@ulthar.internal.mclure.org> you write:
> >
> >I've answered that one on my own - I installed today's CVS emu10k1 and
> got
> >another Oops:
>
> The oops seems to be due to "wave_dev->woinst" being NULL.
>
> Can you try just adding the line
>
> if (!woinst)
> return;
>
> to the top of the function (just before the "spin_lock_irqsave()"). Does
> that fix it for you?
>
> Linus

So far so good - however I don't have a consistent way to reproduce this.
I'll just keep running and see if the Oops happens again.

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