Re: 2.1.118 Tons of oopes
Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 07:27:33 +1000
Garst R. Reese writes:
> Richard Gooch wrote:
> >
> > Garst R. Reese writes:
> > > When I started pcmcia-cs-3.0.5 with only a serial card active I got a
> > > flood of unable to dereference null pointer oopes. If anybody wants them
> > > I'll run em thru ksymoops, but I suspect it's a matter of telling dhinds
> > > what got changed (all those added NULLS?).
> > > Got another one shutting down, but 2.1.117 + bill's patches came up
> > > clean.
> >
> > Linus: for god's sake, back out the particular patch that did this!
> > Surely we can live with having flush() at the end of the structure?!?!
>
> C'mon Richard, it took me all of 10 min to find 4 sigificant instances
> of grep _open and add a NULL, /* flush */ line, as was done a few dozen
> times in the patch. I spend a lot more time reading devfs arguments :>)
> OTOH PCMCIA gets broken a lot and a WARNING section in Documentation
> with some fixup notes could be useful in the dev kernels, but I've never
> heard dhinds complain.
The point is it's not just PCMCIA that has to be changed. Think of all
the in-house drivers people have developed. These have to be changed
too. And as I've just responded to DaveM, I don't see that there *is*
any benefit to the way this was done.
Regards,
Richard....
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