On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Andreas Koensgen wrote:

> I've tested the problem on the weekend and could reconstruct it.
> I've discovered even another error -- when killing spattach
> after a TCP connection has been opened the kernel panics with
> the messages "killing interrupt handler" and "unable to kill the idle
> task". I think the problem is that the driver code which interfaces the
> kernel is very old -- it has been taken from the SLIP driver for 2.0.x
> kernels, later minor changes were done to get it compiled on 2.1.x
> kernels. But meanwhile so many things in the networking code have been
> changed that it is probably easier if I take the kernel interface code
> from the latest 2.2.x mkiss driver and replace/add the 6pack-specific
> routines. This will also be a good opportunity to fix the old
> documentation attached with the driver ...

I think the mkiss driver may suffer from the same problem. I once had
similar behaviour with kissattach but didn't investigate it further...

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