Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 12:33:48 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
       bcollins@debian.org
Subject: Re: ohci1394 oops bisected [was Re: 2.6.19-rc5-mm2 (Oops in
 class_device_remove_attrs during nodemgr_remove_host)]
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On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:13:45 +0100
Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> wrote:

> Mattia Dongili wrote:
> > the winner is... gregkh-driver-network-device.patch

That was a fair bet - that patch has caused a mountain of grief.

> Interesting. Looks very much like eth1394's sysfs interface is getting
> in the way. And since it is entirely handled by the ieee1394 core, it
> means ieee1394 needs the class_dev to dev treatment. I think it's OK if
> we just wait for Greg to finish his preliminary patch. Until then,
> CONFIG_IEEE1394_ETH1394=n should avoid the oops. (Or Andrew marks
> eth1394 broken or removes gregkh-driver-network-device.patch...)

Do we know what's actually wrong, and what needs to be done about it?
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