> > In a low-memory situation [...] the system crashes completely [...]
>
> Is that repeatable to order
Well, I'll try tonight, just in case my users go to sleep sometimes (It's
the summer holidays here)... :-)
> > The insert code does not check whether there is enough physical memory
> > available.
>
> Not the case - I just looked. The actual insmod checks the area it gets,
> the serial driver does no further allocations at load time in 2.0
Well, but what's the difference between modprobe and insmod (apart from that
I tried modprobe first)?
CU
Simon
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