Re: Another must-fix: sbp2 and firewire hard disk crashes hard.

[Andrew Morton]

Torrey Hoffman wrote:
> 
> as soon as the SBP2 driver in
> 2.5.(recent) sees my firewire drive, either during kernel boot or later
> if I turn on / plug in the drive, the system crashes and dumps a
> seemingly endless stack trace.

Please apply the below patch, which should prevent the info
from scrolling away.  Then send a full report to
[e-mail]

diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/traps.c~stop-trace arch/i386/kernel/traps.c
--- 25/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c~stop-trace	Wed Jun  4 16:48:41 2003
+++ 25-akpm/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c	Wed Jun  4 16:50:13 2003
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ void show_trace(unsigned long * stack)
 {
 	int i;
 	unsigned long addr;
+	int count = 0;
 
 	if (!stack)
 		stack = (unsigned long*)&stack;
@@ -111,6 +112,8 @@ void show_trace(unsigned long * stack)
 			printk(" [<%08lx>] ", addr);
 			print_symbol("%s\n", addr);
 		}
+		if (count++ > 12)
+			break;
 	}
 	printk("\n");
 }
@@ -146,6 +149,8 @@ void show_stack(unsigned long * esp)
 	}
 	printk("\n");
 	show_trace(esp);
+	for ( ; ; )
+		;
 }
 
 /*

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