Kernel error / Uwatec Smart via irda

[Nick Hardy]

Thanks Linus,

I'll build a VM with the 3.18 kernel and retest.

Nick Hardy

On 02/08/2015 07:18 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Nick Hardy <nick at hardytown.com> wrote:
>> A few seconds later, a system error message pops up. The smart application
>> never completes and can not be killed. The smart.log file is created, but
>> nothing is ever written to it.
> The kernel error is fixed by commit 4cb8c3593bbb ("irda: stop calling
> sk_prot->disconnect() on connection failure"). That should stop the
> kernel problems, but I'm not sure it will then allow things to work
> past that. I don't think I ever got confirmation of that (and the oops
> happens on a connection error, not in the success case)
>
> That commit is in linux-3.18, so if you can upgrade your kernel to
> try, that would be good.
>
>                              Linus