Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Aug 1998 07:27:33 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.118 Tons of oopes |
| |
Garst R. Reese writes: > Richard Gooch wrote: > > > > Garst R. Reese writes: > > > When I started pcmcia-cs-3.0.5 with only a serial card active I got a > > > flood of unable to dereference null pointer oopes. If anybody wants them > > > I'll run em thru ksymoops, but I suspect it's a matter of telling dhinds > > > what got changed (all those added NULLS?). > > > Got another one shutting down, but 2.1.117 + bill's patches came up > > > clean. > > > > Linus: for god's sake, back out the particular patch that did this! > > Surely we can live with having flush() at the end of the structure?!?! > > C'mon Richard, it took me all of 10 min to find 4 sigificant instances > of grep _open and add a NULL, /* flush */ line, as was done a few dozen > times in the patch. I spend a lot more time reading devfs arguments :>) > OTOH PCMCIA gets broken a lot and a WARNING section in Documentation > with some fixup notes could be useful in the dev kernels, but I've never > heard dhinds complain.
The point is it's not just PCMCIA that has to be changed. Think of all the in-house drivers people have developed. These have to be changed too. And as I've just responded to DaveM, I don't see that there *is* any benefit to the way this was done.
Regards,
Richard....
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.altern.org/andrebalsa/doc/lkml-faq.html
| |