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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 23:17:21 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
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        Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Subject: Re: [OOPS] net/8139too
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Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote:
> 
> Hello LKML!
> 
> Since linux-2.4.15-pre[14]+kdb+freeswan I get an oops when stopping my
> 8139too network:
> 
> # ifdown eth0
> eth0: unable to signal thread

Oh gawd. What now?

Could you please tell us what the return value is from kill_proc()?


--- linux-2.4.15-pre4/drivers/net/8139too.c	Mon Nov 12 11:16:11 2001
+++ linux-akpm/drivers/net/8139too.c	Thu Nov 15 23:14:14 2001
@@ -2064,7 +2064,7 @@ static int rtl8139_close (struct net_dev
 		wmb();
 		ret = kill_proc (tp->thr_pid, SIGTERM, 1);
 		if (ret) {
-			printk (KERN_ERR "%s: unable to signal thread\n", dev->name);
+			printk (KERN_ERR "%s: unable to signal thread: %d\n", dev->name, ret);
 			return ret;
 		}
 		wait_for_completion (&tp->thr_exited);

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