Re: loopback device + crypto = crash on 2.6.0-test7 ?

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Peter Lieverdink wrote:
> 
> I agree that something is very broken, though. Mind you, I can only 
> replicate this problem on one of my machines - the other one I've tried it 
> on seems to work fine. Odder still, when I compile a kernel on the machine 
> which is fine and ruin said kernel on the machine which is not fine, I 
> don't experience the crash.

That _really_ sounds like your "broken machine" is nothing more than a
broken compiler (or possibly binutils, but compilers tend to be more
fragile by far, so it's more likely the compiler).

What compiler versions do you have installed on the broken vs good
machines?

		Linus

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