Re: 2.6.[012] register_netdev kernel bug

From: Jeroen Vreeken (ivcgv@mg-services.net)
Date: Sat Feb 07 2004 - 00:52:50 EET

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    On 2004.02.06 22:48:58 +0100 Leo Bistmans wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > When loading soundmodem or baycomepp the mkiss and ax25 modules are
    > loaded, ax0 interface is created. So far so good. When stopping the
    > user-space application and restarting it some time later, the application
    > stalls, ifconfig stalls ... and kernel error is logged:
     
    > Thus the second time the user-space soundmodem does call register_netdev
    > there is this error. As far as I can remember rmmod'ing mkiss and ax25
    > between the first and second run of soundmodem did not help.
    >
    > Results are identical for 2.6.0 and .1 and .2
    > The .config file I used came from www.backports.org/debian. The current
    > used ( for 2.6.2 ) can be found at http://users.pandora.be/nespa/kernoops
    >
    > Is there some dependency I missed, either inside our outside kernel ?

    You are missing a few patches to fix the reuse of network devices in mkiss.
    (it appears 6pack has it to, I will probably post a fix for it soon)
    The patch for mkiss is included in 2.6.2-bk2

    Jeroen

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