From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755327AbYHSIrQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:47:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752950AbYHSIrB (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:47:01 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:34653 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752633AbYHSIrA (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:47:00 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:29:47 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: "Vegard Nossum" Cc: LKML Subject: Re: 2.6.25.11-97.fc9 (P): idr_remove called for id=236 which is not allocated Message-ID: <20080819092947.2dde0872@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <19f34abd0808182353n2174760ao135732327130a727@mail.gmail.com> References: <19f34abd0808150811w2b77479fnead3ae6b527ad4dc@mail.gmail.com> <19f34abd0808150827m5128c8f6wd517796d95227654@mail.gmail.com> <20080815162848.08ff793c@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <19f34abd0808151426i69256b59m25a9a0676b50a6ba@mail.gmail.com> <20080818231546.73020e41@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <19f34abd0808182353n2174760ao135732327130a727@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > The open path for ptmx slaves is via the ptmx device. Opening them any > > other way is not allowed. Vegard Nossum found that previously this was not > > the case and mknod foo c 128 42; cat foo would produce nasty diagnostics > > --- > > Thanks, this seems to work for me. I do get a "SLAP" in dmesg each > time, however :-) Thanks - pushed to -next (without the printk)