Re: Vague maybe ppp-related panic report for 2.6.23-rc9

2007-10-04 Thread Roland Dreier
Just as a quick update -- I seem to only be able to reproduce this crash when my ppp session drops, which seems associated with marginal signal. And unfortunately I have great coverage at home so I haven't been able to reproduce this again today. Maybe on the train tomorrow I can crash my laptop.

Re: Vague maybe ppp-related panic report for 2.6.23-rc9

2007-10-04 Thread Herbert Xu
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 01:51:13PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > > I don't want to jump the gun on the analysis but it just might > be the packet sharing fixes Herbert put in a short time ago. I think the only change of mine that could affect ppp over a serial line is this one. I couldn't see any

Re: Vague maybe ppp-related panic report for 2.6.23-rc9

2007-10-04 Thread Roland Dreier
> I don't want to jump the gun on the analysis but it just might > be the packet sharing fixes Herbert put in a short time ago. > > What you could do is go back to say rc2 and see if you still get > the panics, then bisect from there to narrow it down. > > If rc2 still gives the panic, it'

Re: Vague maybe ppp-related panic report for 2.6.23-rc9

2007-10-04 Thread David Miller
From: Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:12:42 -0700 > Sorry for the lack of detail -- I've just switched to running in the > console so if I can provoke the crash again I'll get a little more > info. I just wanted to mention this in case someone has seen > something simi

Vague maybe ppp-related panic report for 2.6.23-rc9

2007-10-04 Thread Roland Dreier
I'm running 2.6.23-rc9 on my laptop, and when in a coffee shop I use a Verizon EVDO card to get network access. This is a kyocera device that looks like a serial adapter behind an ohci usb controller, and uses the airprime driver (for usb device 0c88:17da). The actual IP networking is ppp over th