Re: v2.1.61 dcache probs / printer not working

C. Scott Ananian (cananian@lcs.mit.edu)
Sat, 1 Nov 1997 17:54:16 -0500 (EST)


On Sat, 1 Nov 1997 <root@solfire.ludwigsburg.netsurf.de> wrote:

> d_alloc: 6313 unused, pruning dcache

This is a debugging message. Ignore it. Nothing is broken.

> Another thing I have noticed with v2.1.6[01] is, that
> printing out anything does not work. Again
> there are no error messages or something like that.

lp.c is broken (along with lots of other drivers, in 2.1.6x). I posted a
patch.

To the linux-kernel folk: Can we somehow watch for the old-style VFS
calling convention and print out a message or something? Silent
failure is deadly.
--Scott
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