Re: 2.1.76 oops

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Sat, 03 Jan 1998 10:30:34 -0500


Tuomas Heino wrote:

> For me that patch has actually prevented those OOPSes... odd, isn't it?
> [got those OOPSes daily 'fore that patch... now been up for a week without a single OOPS]

Hmm, I don't see how the patch could prevent an oops, other than by
slightly moving code around. Each kernel version is a little different,
and if the bug is of the stray pointer variety, it might be trashing
unused memory instead of hitting the dentry list.

But please keep testing -- we need to find the cause of the problem.

Regards,
Bill