They are debug warnings, not oopses.
> ...
> Nov 12 15:40:39 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 0
> Nov 12 15:40:39 localhost last message repeated 3 times
> Nov 12 15:40:39 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 0
> Nov 12 15:40:39 localhost last message repeated 2 times
hm. IDE sick?
> Nov 12 15:40:39 localhost kernel: Debug: sleeping function called from
> illegal context at include/asm/semaphore.h:145
> Nov 12 15:40:39 localhost kernel: Call Trace:
> Nov 12 15:40:39 localhost kernel: [<e1a59215>] PC4500_readrid+0x55/0x160
airo_get_stats is called under the read_lock(&dev_base_lock); which was
taken in dev_get_info. So it may not call sleeping functions (ie:
down_interruptible()).
It would appear that no netdevice->get_stats() method is allowed to sleep,
which seems pretty dumb, IMVHO.
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