Re: IDE problem source ?

[Alan B. <al...@ms...>]

hi,

As previous reported last week, Krystian Baclawski's little
addition (with the help from Roman etc) allowed my system
to boot...but i got a nice kernel panic when doing some
disk stuff.


I've had a second look at the Ooops and the task which stopped
the show was not the task i was running...but a daemon.

wwwoffle   caused the crash...and if i stop this service (installed
by default with Debian 3.0 it seems) then I dont get the 
crash any more and my system was up for the whole weekend...running
X, a few little X programs and a updatedb every hour.  thats
nice and stable enough for me...for now ;-) )

therefore, i'd say we should commit the change...and remove
that other change which doesnt work (in ide-probe.c)..or
find the exactly correct place to put the little interupt
bit that was required.


As an extra note...please find enclosed my crash text (thanks to
dmesg) and the output of ksymoops... because I have some serious
worries that it has uncovered some problems in the TCP area
of the kernel!!

alan