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patch for 1.3.22: slip init bombed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Heiko Eissfeldt)
Sun Sep 3 21:21:56 1995
From: heiko@colossus.escape.de (Heiko Eissfeldt)
To: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 1995 16:51:37 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu,
Linus.Torvalds@helsinki.fi (Linus Torvalds)
Hi,
Stock 1.3.22 bombed reproducible during boot when init'ing the slip devices.
--- dev.c.org Sun Sep 3 16:36:30 1995
+++ dev.c Sun Sep 3 16:44:20 1995
@@ -251,6 +251,9 @@
{
int ct=0;
+ if (dev->flags == 0)
+ return(0);
+
/*
* Call the device specific close. This cannot fail.
* Only if device is UP
This patch worked for me.
Heiko
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