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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: pmhahn@titan.lahn.de
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Subject: Re: [OOPS] net/8139too
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 23:17:21 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BF4BD81.C3E4A4DC@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111160721120.6043-100000@titan.lahn.de>

Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote:
> 
> Hello LKML!
> 
> Since linux-2.4.15-pre[14]+kdb+freeswan I get an oops when stopping my
> 8139too network:
> 
> # ifdown eth0
> eth0: unable to signal thread

Oh gawd. What now?

Could you please tell us what the return value is from kill_proc()?


--- linux-2.4.15-pre4/drivers/net/8139too.c	Mon Nov 12 11:16:11 2001
+++ linux-akpm/drivers/net/8139too.c	Thu Nov 15 23:14:14 2001
@@ -2064,7 +2064,7 @@ static int rtl8139_close (struct net_dev
 		wmb();
 		ret = kill_proc (tp->thr_pid, SIGTERM, 1);
 		if (ret) {
-			printk (KERN_ERR "%s: unable to signal thread\n", dev->name);
+			printk (KERN_ERR "%s: unable to signal thread: %d\n", dev->name, ret);
 			return ret;
 		}
 		wait_for_completion (&tp->thr_exited);

-

  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-16  7:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-16  6:44 [OOPS] net/8139too Philipp Matthias Hahn
2001-11-16  7:17 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2001-11-16  8:12   ` 3C905x - too much work in interrupt, follow-up François Cami
2001-11-16 10:26   ` [OOPS] net/8139too Philipp Matthias Hahn
2001-11-24 19:02     ` [PATCH] net/8139too Philipp Matthias Hahn
2001-11-24 19:06       ` Jeff Garzik

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