Re: PLIP

NIIBE Yutaka (gniibe@chroot.org)
Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:40:43 +0900

Thank you for the report. You have more than one parallel port, don't you?
In such a case, please try this patch, and please let me know if it
stops the OOPS.

--- plip.c~ Thu Jun 17 16:40:13 1999
+++ plip.c Fri Jun 25 16:39:20 1999
@@ -1257,6 +1257,7 @@
if (!dev_plip[i]->name) {
printk(KERN_ERR "plip: memory squeeze.\n");
kfree(dev_plip[i]);
+ dev_plip[i] = NULL;
break;
}
sprintf(dev_plip[i]->name, "plip%d", i);
@@ -1264,6 +1265,7 @@
if (plip_init_dev(dev_plip[i],pb) || register_netdev(dev_plip[i])) {
kfree(dev_plip[i]->name);
kfree(dev_plip[i]);
+ dev_plip[i] = NULL;
} else {
i++;
}

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