Re: Nasty regression from .27.7 to .27.8: idle samba goes crazy

From: Chuck Ebbert
Date: Tue Dec 09 2008 - 14:32:46 EST


On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:16:34 +0100
Manfred Spraul <manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > Try reverting the idr patch that went into 2.6.27.8. It broke DRM in the
> > Fedora kernel at least.
> >
> >
> What happens?
> Does it oops, does one of the BUG() statements trigger?
>

It fails in strange ways, e.g. trying to open a DRM device causes it to
disappear. (And DRM is a heavy user of idr.)
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