Messages in this thread | | | From | Jens David <> | Date | Thu, 3 Aug 2000 03:38:51 +0100 |
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Hi,
On Thursday 17 May 2001 23:04, you wrote: > Hi! > > I was tracking down a problem with Debian installation freezing when doing > the ifconfig of the 8139too driver on 2.2.19 kernel, and found that this > was caused by 8139too for 2.2.19 not closing it's file descriptors. > > The original code by Jeff for the 2.4 series is ok, and searching for the > cause of the problem I have found a difference in the way rtl8139_thread > exits on both versions: > > 2.2 version: > up (&tp->thr_exited); > return 0; > > 2.4 version: > up_and_exit (&tp->thr_exited, 0); > > I think the problem must be there, not doing the do_exit on the 2.2 > version, but I may be wrong, can anybody look this up?
I added the exit_files(current) to the version in my source repository. Will be contained in the next releases. Thanks! Btw.: CC'ing me was a good idea, I'm not on linux-kernel, only on linux-net due to mail volume.
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