Re: Kernel 2.4.5-ac2 OOPs when run pppd ?

2001-05-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Richard Gooch wrote: > > How about having a helper function for interrupt handlers which queues > characters to be sent to the console? kconsoled anyone? Blocking > interrupts is quite distressing, so we need to be consoled ;-) I don't think we need it, Richard. These writes to tty devices

Re: Kernel 2.4.5-ac2 OOPs when run pppd ?

2001-05-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Alan Cox wrote: > > > Yeas it is stil the same as 2.4.5-ac1, but did not > > happen with 2.4.5; You can try running pppd in the > > console (tty1) without any argument. > > Looks like an interaction with the newer console locking code. The BUG() is > caused when the ppp code tries to write to

Re: Kernel 2.4.5-ac2 OOPs when run pppd ?

2001-05-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Alan Cox wrote: Yeas it is stil the same as 2.4.5-ac1, but did not happen with 2.4.5; You can try running pppd in the console (tty1) without any argument. Looks like an interaction with the newer console locking code. The BUG() is caused when the ppp code tries to write to the console

Re: Kernel 2.4.5-ac2 OOPs when run pppd ?

2001-05-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Richard Gooch wrote: How about having a helper function for interrupt handlers which queues characters to be sent to the console? kconsoled anyone? Blocking interrupts is quite distressing, so we need to be consoled ;-) I don't think we need it, Richard. These writes to tty devices from