From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:42:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:42:30 -0500 Received: from packet.digeo.com ([12.110.80.53]:7889 "EHLO packet.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:42:28 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 13:51:38 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: David Ford Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Adam J. Richter" Subject: Re: 2.5.59 OOPS w/ fdisk & devfs Message-Id: <20030206135138.3c083007.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <3E42D05E.8080907@blue-labs.org> References: <3E42D05E.8080907@blue-labs.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.9 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Feb 2003 21:51:50.0762 (UTC) FILETIME=[F44F64A0:01C2CE29] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Ford wrote: > > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6b87 > ... > EIP is at _devfs_unhook+0x2b/0x70 Look. devfs is sick. Richard has disappeared. Al did some work on it and also disappeared. Adam laid it on the ground and drove a truck over it, and I had that patch in -mm for two or three weeks and had one single, sole, sad, sorry report from a tester. I dropped Adam's patch out again because it might have been implicated in weird system hangs. So what are we to do? It appears that kernel developers do not use devfs, and people who _do_ use devfs either did not test Adam's patch, or forgot to send in a report. I shall reinclude Adam's patch. Will people who use devfs *please* test it, and send in a report? Otherwise the whole thing is just going nowhere.