linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19-rc5-mm2 (Oops in class_device_remove_attrs during nodemgr_remove

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Date:	Sat, 18 Nov 2006 23:08:53 +0100
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Mattia Dongili <malattia@...ux.it>
CC:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, bcollins@...ian.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc5-mm2 (Oops in class_device_remove_attrs during nodemgr_remove_host)

I wrote:
> It seems like one of the patches in -mm overwrites a device's list of
> children with junk.

And this happens only if eth1394 wasn't unloaded (therefore unbound
from FireWire "ud" devices beneath FireWire "ne" devices beneath the
FireWire host devices) before the host devices's children are to be
removed.

> Mattia, *if* your machine is able to compile and reboot into new
> kernels  really quickly, it would be nice if you could biject between
> the -mm patches.
...
> But hold on, I will do one other thing after I sent this message; I'll
> test -mm with CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y.

CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y does not change anything.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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