Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Dec 1998 09:37:23 +0100 | From | Kurt Garloff <> | Subject | Re: patch to drivers/char/serial.c to fix kernel lock-up |
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On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 04:02:21PM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > Please take this patch to drivers/char/serial.c. It fixes a problem I was > having where the kernel would lock up solidly (infinite loop in serial.c). > ...
> Umm... can you give me more information about exactly how to reproduce > this? I've tried, and I can't reproduce it. Note that startup() checks > ... > > Given that no one else has reported anything vaguely like this, and the > serial driver hasn't change significantly recently, I must conclude that > you must be doing something different, or your system must be different > in some way from most other people's. > > Are you using a SMP machine? Were any other serial ports open when you > ran kermit? How are your irq's and ports configured? Etc.
Did you read the "seyon crahes 2.1.129!" mail I sent to the list? (Obviuosly, I wanted to write crashes ...) Actually, you should read the whole thread: "2.1.129-ac3 severe RX errors in PPP"
I think it's the same problem ...
Also SMP here, BTW.
-- Kurt Garloff <K.Garloff@ping.de> (Dortmund, FRG) PGP key on http://student.physik.uni-dortmund.de/homepages/garloff
>There is something frustrating about the quality and speed of Linux >development. I.e. the quality is too high and the speed is too high, in >other words, I can implement this XXXX feature, but I bet someone else >has already done it and is just about to release his patch to Linus soon... [From a posting of Tigran Aivazian to linux-kernel, XXXX = disk stat]
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