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Date:      Mon, 24 May 1999 01:27:07 -0400
From:      Natty Rebel <dervish@ikhala.tcimet.net>
To:        "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: panic() in devfs_makelink() with recent -current
Message-ID:  <19990524012627.A405@ikhala.tcimet.net>
In-Reply-To: <199905240222.WAA00560@whizzo.transsys.com>; from Louis A. Mamakos on Sun, May 23, 1999 at 10:22:43PM -0400
References:  <199905240222.WAA00560@whizzo.transsys.com>

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Quoting Louis A. Mamakos (louie@TransSys.COM):
> 
> I recently tried building a new kernel after quite a bit, and I get a
> panic while the system's booting in devfs_makelink, apparently being
> called from fd_attach().
> 
> Is DEVFS and the new-bus code hopelessly incompatable, and should I just
> unconfigure DEVFS?  Or is this something that I can dig into a bit more
> and find a relatively simple fix?  
> 
> I copied down some of what the trace command spewed in ddb, and it appears
> that the first argument to devfs_makelink is 0, which is sorta weird..
Can I say me too here.  My panics were happening in the swapper process.
After reading your message I commented out the DEVFS option and voila!
the new kernel booted without a hitch.  I'm up for doing some kernel 
digging ...

> 
> louie
> 
> 
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#;^)
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