From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 14:50:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 14:50:04 -0500 Received: from slc885.modem.xmission.com ([166.70.6.123]:39944 "EHLO flinx.biederman.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 14:49:46 -0500 To: Kai Germaschewski Cc: Gerold Jury , Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List , , Subject: Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel.. In-Reply-To: From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 03 Jan 2001 10:50:47 -0700 In-Reply-To: Kai Germaschewski's message of "Tue, 2 Jan 2001 23:55:45 +0100 (CET)" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Kai Germaschewski writes: > On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Gerold Jury wrote: > > > I have reversed the patches part by part, the only thing that makes a > > difference is the diversion services. > > The reason for this remains unknown for me. > > I think I found it. Could everybody who was getting the crash on ISDN line > hangup try if the following patch fixes the problem? > > I think the problem was that we relied on divert_if being initialized to > zero automatically, which didn't happen because it was not declared static > and therefore not in .bss (*is this true?*). All variables with static storage (not with static scope) if not explicitly initialized are placed in the bss segment. In particular this means that adding/removing a static changes nothing. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/