[realtek] Cardbus problem with "kmem_free"

Jesse op den Brouw jesse@bestweb.nl
Wed, 24 May 2000 21:03:43 +0200 (CEST)


On Tue, 23 May 2000, Donald Becker wrote:

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> > May 23 21:05:15 baby cardmgr[449]: + Determining IP information for eth0...Operation failed.
> 
> I don't believe this is a driver bug, it's a protocol level bug.
> 

Okay, so ware do I start looking, I don't like this so...

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> > May 23 21:03:34 baby kernel: cs: cb_free(bus 32) 
> 
> Nor this.  The driver doesn't allocate any new skbuffs.  But the close is
> called during an interrupt (it must -- the card is gone *right now*).
> Some kernel versions have poorly written code that assumes only a user-level
> program will be shutting the interface down.

Hmm, I'm using 2.2.14-5.0 right out of the box. Is this know to be a
problematic kernel?

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Done.

--Jesse