Re: 2.3.15 hangs - ISDN related?
Karsten Keil (kkeil@suse.de)
Wed, 1 Sep 1999 12:57:47 +0200
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 10:10:26PM +0100, Paul Flinders wrote:
>
> I had another look at my config as well after finding that the problem
> seems to have gone away with a rebuild
>
> I hadn't configured any D chanel protocols (looking back I can see
> "HiSax: protocol euro not supported" messages in my logs but I must
> have been smoking something because I missed them even though they
> were staring me in the face.
Grrhh. I thought I fixed this problem last year, but it seems that the
changes in layer 3 put again a Null pointer to some indirect function
call, if no protocol was selected. OK, I'll set this on the TODO for the
next patch.
>
> Even though I think it was probably my fault I'm a bit dubious that a
> missed configuration option should hang the kernel so easily. Perhaps
> the isdn code could be made to refuse to compile if the choices aren't
> "sensible"
>
Yes, but no protocol should be a valid option (e.g. for leased lines) and
should be not kill the kernel, but give a runtime warning.
Karsten
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