Re: 2.5.1-pre5 not easy to boot with devfs

[Richard Gooch]

Pierre Rousselet writes:
> The oops comes shortly after booting, loging in, starting devfsd-v1.3.20
> and playing with mc.
> The attached file is the same; it may be easier to read. The last line
> is the last entry of the log before <SysRq U>, <SysRq B>.
> 
> Dec  2 07:39:29 milou kernel: devfs: devfs_unregister(): de->name: "s3"
> de: cf6ddf3c 
> Dec  2 07:39:29 milou kernel: devfs: d_delete(): dentry: cf6c4c8c 
> inode: cf6c1a0c  devfs_entry: c14d0a94 
[...]

This isn't the complete kernel messages! You've edited it. These first
two lines should be related, yet the devfs entries are different. If I
had the complete kernel messages, I could see what devfs_entry
c14d0a94 is supposed to be. And there might be other clues related to
the dentry values. Also, please changed the second printk() in
devfs_d_delete() to this:
    if (devfs_debug & DEBUG_D_DELETE)
	printk ("%s: d_delete(%s): dentry: %p  inode: %p  devfs_entry: %p pp: %p \"%s\"\n",
		DEVFS_NAME, de->name, dentry, inode, de, de->parent, de->parent->name);

Please, edit nothing. If the output is big, just send it to me so you
don't spam the list.

Also, please send me the output of lsmod prior to the Oops.

				Regards,

					Richard....
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