Ingo Molnar wrote:
this patch fixes the rmmod oops reported by Paul Fulghum. It is caused by the generic-irqs subsystem creating multiple /proc/irq/<nr>/<name> directory entries with the same name which then confuses procfs upon module removal.
Ingo
This patch fixed the problem for me.
For information, here is the the contents of my /proc/interrupts :
CPU0 0: 1085029 XT-PIC timer
1: 4473 XT-PIC i8042
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 129799 XT-PIC eth0, Ensoniq AudioPCI, uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
9: 0 XT-PIC acpi
10: 2 XT-PIC ohci1394
12: 16872 XT-PIC i8042
14: 12803 XT-PIC ide0
15: 78 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0
MIS: 0
and the contents of /proc/irq/5/ :
/proc/irq/5/: total 0 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 oct 17 21:45 Ensoniq AudioPCI/ dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 oct 17 21:45 eth0/ dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 oct 17 21:45 uhci_hcd/
/proc/irq/5/Ensoniq AudioPCI: total 0
/proc/irq/5/eth0: total 0
/proc/irq/5/uhci_hcd: total 0
Thank you, Paul and Ingo.
-- laurent
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