Kernel Panic from pppd when device is disconnected

[James McKenzie]

rhmail at hacksaw.org wrote:
>>>If I have pppd running and I disconnect the device (I am using a USB connection), the kernel panics and I cannot reconnect the device at the same /dev 
>>
>>Why do you disconnect the device whilst you are using it in the first
>>place? I mean, you wouldn't disconnect a USB hard drive whilst you were
>>writing to it, would you?
> 
> 
> True, but on the other hand, the kernel shouldn't panic. After all, such a 
> device might become disconnected by accident, and it is supposed to be a hot 
> plug device.
> 
> It might screw things up, but there should be no panic.
> 
> What are you doing over the ppp connection? NFS or some other network file 
> system?

Nope, just accessing the I-net.  I've even done this after the 
connection has been idle for a while.
-- 
James McKenzie
With assistance, Now running 2.6.11rc4, Software Suspend 2
and ibm-acpi .1
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