Ingo Molnar wrote:
> this patch fixes the rmmod oops reported by Paul Fulghum. It is
> caused by the generic-irqs subsystem creating multiple
> /proc/irq/<nr>/<name> directory entries with the same name which
> then confuses procfs upon module removal.
> 
> Ingo

This patch fixed the problem for me.

For information, here is the the contents of my /proc/interrupts :
>            CPU0       
>   0:    1085029          XT-PIC  timer
>   1:       4473          XT-PIC  i8042
>   2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
>   5:     129799          XT-PIC  eth0, Ensoniq AudioPCI, uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd
>   8:          1          XT-PIC  rtc
>   9:          0          XT-PIC  acpi
>  10:          2          XT-PIC  ohci1394
>  12:      16872          XT-PIC  i8042
>  14:      12803          XT-PIC  ide0
>  15:         78          XT-PIC  ide1
> NMI:          0 
> LOC:          0 
> ERR:          0
> MIS:          0

and the contents of /proc/irq/5/ :
> /proc/irq/5/:
> total 0
> dr-xr-xr-x  2 root root 0 oct 17 21:45 Ensoniq AudioPCI/
> dr-xr-xr-x  2 root root 0 oct 17 21:45 eth0/
> dr-xr-xr-x  2 root root 0 oct 17 21:45 uhci_hcd/
> 
> /proc/irq/5/Ensoniq AudioPCI:
> total 0
> 
> /proc/irq/5/eth0:
> total 0
> 
> /proc/irq/5/uhci_hcd:
> total 0

Thank you, Paul and Ingo.

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laurent