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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Bernd Schubert <bernd-schubert@web.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.7: sk98lin unload oops
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 23:04:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040704220446.GA9010@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200407050001.46489.bernd-schubert@web.de>

On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 12:01:35AM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> [from your other mail]
> > the previous one) makes it work unless you change the interface name
> > manually, but as Linux explicitly allows that the interface is
> > fundamentally broken and probably should just go away.
> 
> Unfortunality we rename all interfaces using ifrename to make sure that the 
> interface names won't change with different kernel versions (we have this 
> problem when we switch between 2.4. and 2.6.). So it is normal that the oops 
> occurs on unloading the modules?

Well, the problem is that someone smoked bad crack when designing the sk98lin
procfs interface ;-)  We should probably just kill it and find a better way
to export the information if nessecary.  I'll take a look at that.

> Btw, on 22th June I got another skge.c patch from Herbert Xu to fix another 
> oops:
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/6/22/44
> 
> This patch applies fine on top of your new versions (with 400 lines offset), 
> maybe this patch should also be included into the current BK tree?

Jeff already merged that patch.

      reply	other threads:[~2004-07-04 22:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200407041342.18821.bernd-schubert@web.de>
     [not found] ` <20040704151509.GA5100@infradead.org>
2004-07-04 15:23   ` 2.6.7: sk98lin unload oops Christoph Hellwig
2004-07-07 20:50     ` Denis Vlasenko
     [not found]   ` <200407042028.59047.bernd-schubert@web.de>
2004-07-04 18:44     ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-07-04 22:01       ` Bernd Schubert
2004-07-04 22:04         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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