On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Bruno [UTF-8] Prémont wrote: > No, that one does not really help (well it avoids dereferencing a bad > pointer (NULL for pl2302 or invalid for ftdi) with serial_do_free() after > destroy_serial() but is does underflow module refcount (refcount ends > up at 2^32-1) and lets the kernel stall/panic a short time later without > any useful information at that moment (only very first line of trace > ever appears) [ftdi for the panic/freeze]. More information, please. Does the problem occur with the pl2303 or only with the ftdi? Which module's refcount underflows? What else can you provide? I don't see the same sort of thing with my pl2303 device, but maybe I'm using a different version of minicom. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
