Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 17 Sep 2000 21:14:01 +0200 (CEST) | From | Igmar Palsenberg <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: Segmentation fault [SIGSEGV] reading from /proc/tty/driver/serial |
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On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, David Ford wrote:
> There was a round of discussion about /proc.../serial back in May. It > covered corruption and bad addresses. Although it didn't specifically say > "I'm fixing the segmentation fault that some people are going to report", > they did indeed discuss the bad data, smp locking, and etc precisely on > serial.c. > > If a specific problem such as a bad address went away by upgrading, there's a > very strong chance that the bug was fixed. Such problems aren't likely to > migrate around in the kernel and be hidden, they tend to stay localized. > Instead of searching for a given author's comments, diff the two files and > see if the initializing code changed. A lot of fixes go in without specific > credits.
That's also my thought.. I'll diff the files tomorrow, and see what comes out.
Igmar
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