Re: [PATCH] Specialix RIO Oops fix

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Feb 04 2002 - 10:43:24 EST


> The patch below fixes an Oops in the Specialix RIO driver. I sent
> this to the maintainer a couple of months ago and never got a
> response.

Its not really going to help. You need to work out how it got like that
to have any chance it broke.

Until then it would be better to use

        if(....)
                BUG()

That will get a stack trace to show why it worked

> client that they would have to switch to the original Red Hat 7.1
> kernel (2.4.2-something) if they wanted it to actually work.

Thats not a good idea. 2.4.2 has security holes, and should not be used
in production systems.
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