From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262771AbTIEOIR (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Sep 2003 10:08:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262778AbTIEOIR (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Sep 2003 10:08:17 -0400 Received: from imap.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:2261 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262771AbTIEOIP (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Sep 2003 10:08:15 -0400 Subject: Re: [2.6.0-test-x] Kernel Oops and pppd segfault From: Florian Zimmermann To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20030905084126.A15120@infradead.org> References: <1062711059.8011.4.camel@mindfsck> <20030905084126.A15120@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1062769373.3377.1.camel@mindfsck> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 Date: 05 Sep 2003 15:42:54 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 09:41, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 11:30:59PM +0200, Florian Zimmermann wrote: > > I have posted that to linux-ppp mailing list, but > > no answer for 2 weeks now.. > > This should fix the oops, but the failure is still strange. ^^^^^ what? where? when? In case you attached a patch, please resend - there was no attachement :) > > do you already have a ppp device in /dev before loading the module? the module is never loaded btw, but before i try to load the module the /device is already there: crw-r--r-- 1 root root 108, 0 Sep 5 2003 /dev/ppp