Re: 2.6.7: sk98lin unload oops

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 12:01:35AM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> [from your other mail]
> > the previous one) makes it work unless you change the interface name
> > manually, but as Linux explicitly allows that the interface is
> > fundamentally broken and probably should just go away.
> 
> Unfortunality we rename all interfaces using ifrename to make sure that the 
> interface names won't change with different kernel versions (we have this 
> problem when we switch between 2.4. and 2.6.). So it is normal that the oops 
> occurs on unloading the modules?

Well, the problem is that someone smoked bad crack when designing the sk98lin
procfs interface ;-)  We should probably just kill it and find a better way
to export the information if nessecary.  I'll take a look at that.

> Btw, on 22th June I got another skge.c patch from Herbert Xu to fix another 
> oops:
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/6/22/44
> 
> This patch applies fine on top of your new versions (with 400 lines offset), 
> maybe this patch should also be included into the current BK tree?

Jeff already merged that patch.
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