Re: Linux-2.1.129..

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Sun, 22 Nov 1998 17:14:17 +1100


Alan Cox writes:
> > I can be very exact, I've posted OOPSes here a few times already (last one
> > was just after 2.1.127 - but I have no trouble believing that the list ate
> > them :-). Here they go again.
>
> Oh I saw this one before, its totally crazy so I assumed it was a one
> off bogosity or misbuilt kernel.
>
> Are you using devfs ?

Why do you ask that? I've not heard of any devfs-induced oops reports
for a long time now.

> > >>EIP: c0124753 <chrdev_open+33/4c>
>
> Thats not even getting into the sound code. That appears to be
>
> file->f_op->open
>
> which means something scribbled on the pointers or some kind of bogus
> unload occured leaving the character device registered and pointing to
> an unloaded module
>
> Next time this occurs can you do an lsmod and also a cat /proc/devices
> and tell me what happens

Regards,

Richard....

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