Re: oops on booting 2.3.99pre7-9

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@goop.org)
Date: Fri May 12 2000 - 16:20:49 EST


On 12-May-2000 Jan Niehusmann wrote:
> On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 04:00:03PM +0200, Jan Niehusmann wrote:
>> I just moved kmem_cache_free below usb_dec_dev_use, and will try if
>> it works now.
>
> Ok, the change does prevent the oops. As I don't know much about kernel
> development, you should probably not blindly apply the patch, it may cause
> other problems.
>
> I suspect the same change has to be done somewhere in usb-uhci.c.

Indeed. I tried your patch, but I still get an oops in clean_descs() about
when the system is probing for my mouse at boot.

        J

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