Re: ALSA Oops (triggered by xmms)

[Jesper Juhl]

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Christian Kujau wrote:

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> Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > 
> >   ^^^^^ you should send such info inline in the email - having to go check 
> > external links makes a lot of people ignore the stuff right then and 
> 
> yeah, but the oops doesn't wrap at 80 chars itsself and often oopses are
> hardly readable inline.
> 
I would still suggest including the info inline and then if you think it's 
needed /also/ provide the link you did - then you've covered all bases :)

> > Btw: I believe this is fixed in 2.6.11.7 - from the Changelog : 
> >
> > <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
> > 	[PATCH] Fix Oops with ALSA timer event notification
> 
> oh, this sounds good. strange though, that my 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 (whatever
> they've patched in there) *never* oopsed the days ago but all of a sudden
> started to oops yesterday....
> 
Some bugs are like that, especially when they involve race conditions or 
timers.. Anyway, if you could test 2.6.11.7 (and perhaps also 2.6.12-rc*) 
to verify that the issue is indeed fixed, then I believe that would be 
appreciated :)


-- 
Jesper


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