Hi, The following patches to irq.c were made to deal with potential errors in creating /proc entries for irqs on bootup. The code add checks to ensure that the entries were created succesfully. In case of error, it attempts to cleanup after itself. The patch was made against v2.4.4 of the kernel and result from some errors found during checker runs against the kernel source. Victor Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/i386/kernel/irq.c.orig Sun May 6 23:45:09 2001 +++ arch/i386/kernel/irq.c Sun May 6 23:48:26 2001 @@ -1137,6 +1137,11 @@ /* create /proc/irq/1234/smp_affinity */ entry = create_proc_entry("smp_affinity", 0600, irq_dir[irq]); + if (!entry) { + remove_proc_entry(name, root_irq_dir); + return; + } + entry->nlink = 1; entry->data = (void *)(long)irq; entry->read_proc = irq_affinity_read_proc; @@ -1157,6 +1162,11 @@ /* create /proc/irq/prof_cpu_mask */ entry = create_proc_entry("prof_cpu_mask", 0600, root_irq_dir); + + if (!entry) { + remove_proc_entry("irq", 0); + return; + } entry->nlink = 1; entry->data = (void *)&prof_cpu_mask; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/