From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Arnaud Ebalard <arno@natisbad.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [bisected] Weird sysctl regression
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:49:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080823084936.GK28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fxoyal9j.fsf@natisbad.org>
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 09:18:48AM +0200, Arnaud Ebalard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While updating some IPv6-related patches for net-2.6, I hit the
> following issue on a test laptop (G4-based 12" powerbook). After
> compiling current net-2.6 kernel on another ppc device (G4-based 15"
> powerbook), I have the same issue. Note that:
>
> - it never shows up on any of the x86 devices I have.
> - hardware of both ppc devices are similar (bcm4306, sungem, ...)
> i.e. they do not only have endianness in common (and i had no sparc
> device to test if it is an endianness issue or a coincidence)
Endianness is very unlikely to be the cause of that. Order of initialization,
OTOH...
Can you reproduce it on mainline kernel or bisect between the mainline
and net-2.6 if mainline is OK?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-23 8:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-21 7:18 [bisected] Weird sysctl regression Arnaud Ebalard
2008-08-23 8:49 ` Al Viro [this message]
2008-08-23 16:03 ` Arnaud Ebalard
2008-08-23 17:02 ` Al Viro
2008-08-23 17:13 ` Arnaud Ebalard
2008-08-23 18:16 ` Al Viro
2008-08-23 21:09 ` Arnaud Ebalard
2008-08-24 11:54 ` Al Viro
2008-08-24 12:53 ` Arnaud Ebalard
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