procfs bug (was: Re: bttv (or PCI subsystem?) still broken in 2.3.99-pre8)

From: Gerd Knorr (kraxel@goldbach.in-berlin.de)
Date: Sat May 13 2000 - 11:24:09 EDT

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    Tigran Aivazian wrote:
    > Hi guys,
    >
    > just to let you know that bttv still panics on boot in 2.3.99-pre8.
    > (works as a module).

    Looks like a initialization order problem in procfs:

    diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.3.99-pre6/linux/fs/proc/generic.c linux/fs/proc/generic.c
    --- v2.3.99-pre6/linux/fs/proc/generic.c Tue Apr 11 15:09:23 2000
    +++ linux/fs/proc/generic.c Mon May 8 11:17:47 2000
    @@ -373,36 +373,30 @@
     static void proc_kill_inodes(struct proc_dir_entry *de)
     {
            struct list_head *p;
    - struct super_block *sb;
    + struct super_block *sb = proc_mnt->mnt_sb;

    This patch kills the kernel, proc_kill_inodes is called with proc_mnt
    being NULL. Can someone who knows procfs better than me please fix it?

      Gerd 

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