Re: 2.2.0 Ooops near do_select()

Mark Lord (mlord@pobox.com)
Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:12:59 -0500

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Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> In article <36AE4360.153E8698@pobox.com>, Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com> wrote:
> >Noticed this in my syslog today.
> >Not sure which app triggered it.
>
> It actually tells you: "Process cardmgr".
>
> Anyway, the bug is not in the standard kernel sources: the failing entry
> is "ds_poll()", which is probably part of the PCMCIA package (it doesn't
> show up with a global grep of the kernel sources). I suspect you just
> need to recompile the modules in question, because some of the poll
> tables changed to accomodate a larger number of pollable fd's.

Absolutely correct -- my pcmcia stuff was apparently out-of-date.

New stuff (3.0.7) builds okay, except for 8390.c
(doesn't include linux/autoconf.h before module.h).

Thanks.

-- mlord@pobox.com

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