On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Tomi Manninen OH2BNS wrote:
> 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...
>
You're right, I just got an email from another OM who told me about
the same problem. However, using the mkiss code for the kernel interface
might remove the other problem, i.e. spattach falls into an
uninterruptible sleep when killing it. I've checked it out, kissattach
can be killed cleanly if no IP connection has been established
before.
73 de Andreas
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