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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:17:13 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Thomas Schlichter <schlicht@uni-mannheim.de>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test8-mm1
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Thomas Schlichter <schlicht@uni-mannheim.de> wrote:
>
> On Monday 20 October 2003 23:48, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > A colleague here has discovered that this crash is repeatable, but goes
> > away when the radeon driver is disabled.
> >
> > Are you using that driver?
> 
> No, I'm not... I use the vesafb driver. Do you think disabling this could cure 
> the Oops?

It might.  Could you test it please?

There's nothing in -mm which touches the inode list management code, so a
random scribble or misbehaving driver is likely.

> Btw. a similar Oops at the same place occours when the uhci-hcd module is 
> unloaded...

How similar?