Hi, Just trying out 2.6.24.2 and in unloading some modules which I don't need managed to generate kernel oopsii. My apologies if these had been reported, I did a search and didn't see any other reports.
rmmod fan gives: Feb 14 19:02:22 nike kernel: [ 150.012343] WARNING: at fs/proc/generic.c:736 remove_proc_entry() Feb 14 19:02:22 nike kernel: [ 150.012379] Pid: 3570, comm: rmmod Not tainted 2.6.24.2 #1 Feb 14 19:02:22 nike kernel: [ 150.012465] Feb 14 19:02:22 nike kernel: [ 150.012466] Call Trace: Feb 14 19:02:22 nike kernel: [ 150.012536] [<ffffffff802ea0db>] remove_proc_entry+0x198/0x1df Feb 14 19:02:22 nike kernel: [ 150.012587] [<ffffffff8032a8de>] kobject_release+0x0/0xf Feb 14 19:02:22 nike kernel: [ 150.012619] [<ffffffff8032a8eb>] kobject_release+0xd/0xf Feb 14 19:02:22 nike kernel: [ 150.012650] [<ffffffff8032b906>] kref_put+0x5f/0x6b Feb 14 19:02:22 nike kernel: [ 150.012682] [<ffffffff8032a844>] kobject_put+0x19/0x1b Feb 14 19:02:22 nike kernel: [ 150.012714] [<ffffffff803988aa>] bus_put+0xd/0xf Feb 14 19:02:22 nike kernel: [ 150.012746] [<ffffffff80398966>] bus_remove_driver+0xba/0xc3 Feb 14 19:02:22 nike kernel: [ 150.012783] [<ffffffff881e3367>] :fan:acpi_fan_exit+0x23/0x25 Feb 14 19:02:22 nike kernel: [ 150.012815] [<ffffffff80264c1d>] sys_delete_module+0x1b0/0x1e3 Feb 14 19:02:22 nike kernel: [ 150.012851] [<ffffffff8020f707>] syscall_trace_enter+0xb7/0xbb Feb 14 19:02:22 nike kernel: [ 150.012885] [<ffffffff8020c21a>] tracesys+0xdc/0xe1 Feb 14 19:02:22 nike kernel: [ 150.012920] Also managed to get a nasty issue with rmmod 8250_pnp and agetty. I have the machine boot up to use ttyS0 as the console. On removing 8250_pnp.ko it threw the following oops and then promptly wrote thousands of lines of errors, all saying: [ 1193.307736] release_dev: ttyS0: read/write wait queue active! Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.912518] at 0000000000000010 RIP: Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.913047] PGD 75552067 PUD 75074067 PMD 0 Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.913653] CPU 0 Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.913920] Modules linked in: ipv6 ipt_owner ipt_LOG xt_limit ipt_REJECT xt_tcpudp nf_conntrack_ipv4 xt_state nf_conntrack iptable_filter ip_tables x _tables binfmt_misc quota_v2 sbshc sbp2 firewire_sbp2 nvram ohci1394 8250_pnp ieee1394 firewire_ohci 8250 firewire_core serial_core crc_itu_t forcedeth sg unix dm_mod libusual sata_n v libata sd_mod scsi_mod ext3 jbd mbcache ssb pcmcia pcmcia_core firmware_class usbcore Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.916274] Pid: 3320, comm: agetty Not tainted 2.6.24.2 #1 Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.916525] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff88240160>] [<ffffffff88240160>] :serial_core:uart_chars_in_buffer+0xf/0x1c Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.917028] RSP: 0000:ffff8100754d7bf8 EFLAGS: 00010292 Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.917279] RAX: ffff81007b1af9b0 RBX: 7fffffffffffffff RCX: 000000001d60dd26 Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.917532] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff810075517090 Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.917785] RBP: ffff8100754d7bf8 R08: ffff8100755173c8 R09: 00000000755173a8 Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.918038] R10: ffffffff805a7f38 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff810075517090 Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.918298] R13: 7fffffffffffffff R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000005403 Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.918554] FS: 00002b1ad993b6f0(0000) GS:ffffffff8057a000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.919031] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.919283] CR2: 0000000000000010 CR3: 0000000076568000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.919536] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.919789] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.920043] Process agetty (pid: 3320, threadinfo ffff8100754d6000, task ffff8100754d4000) Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.920519] Stack: ffff8100754d7c58 ffffffff80384ff6 0000000000000000 ffff8100754d4000 Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.921102] ffffffff8024e355 ffff8100755173c8 ffff8100755173c8 0000000000000296 Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.921663] ffff8100754d7c58 ffff8100755170a8 ffff810075517090 0000000000000002 Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.921981] Call Trace: Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.922486] [<ffffffff80384ff6>] tty_wait_until_sent+0xa6/0x108 Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.922741] [<ffffffff8024e355>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x38 Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.922996] [<ffffffff80385159>] set_termios+0x101/0x399 Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.923249] [<ffffffff8037ea9c>] tty_ldisc_try+0x40/0x47 Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.923504] [<ffffffff8042403b>] _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x3f/0x47 Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.923760] [<ffffffff803854e8>] tty_mode_ioctl+0xf7/0x266 Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.924014] [<ffffffff80385867>] n_tty_ioctl+0x210/0x221 Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.924268] [<ffffffff803823a1>] tty_ioctl+0xc78/0xce2 Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.924523] [<ffffffff802d5547>] inotify_inode_queue_event+0x4f/0xe0 Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.924779] [<ffffffff80309ecc>] inode_has_perm+0x6b/0x7a Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.925034] [<ffffffff802a53c0>] check_bytes_and_report+0x38/0xcb Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.925288] [<ffffffff80309f82>] file_has_perm+0xa7/0xb6 Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.925543] [<ffffffff802b8d8a>] do_ioctl+0x5e/0x77 Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.931362] [<ffffffff802b8ff4>] vfs_ioctl+0x251/0x26e Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.931616] [<ffffffff802b9068>] sys_ioctl+0x57/0x7b Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.931869] [<ffffffff8020c21a>] tracesys+0xdc/0xe1 Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.932123] Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.932368] Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.932369] Code: 8b 42 10 2b 42 14 c9 25 ff 0f 00 00 c3 48 8b 87 b0 00 00 00 Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.934036] RSP <ffff8100754d7bf8> Feb 14 18:53:01 nike kernel: [ 1114.934554] ---[ end trace d01c9c9b8dd780f4 ]--- Agetty is spawned via: S0:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -h -L ttyS0 115200 vt100 This kernel is 2.6.24.2 from kernel.org and configured only with "make allmodconfig". 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