From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: michael@ellerman.id.au, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
paulus@samba.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix size of st_nlink on 64bit
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 13:48:36 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120603134836.4ffbd73d@kryten> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120603122850.3c5142767e429f34eb8a921e@canb.auug.org.au>
Hi Stephen,
> > commit e57f93cc53b7 (powerpc: get rid of nlink_t uses, switch to
> > explicitly-sized type) changed the size of st_nlink on ppc64 from
> > a long to a short, resulting in boot failures.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
>
> Would this affect my (early user mode) boot problems reported
> yesterday;
>
> /init: 71: mknod: Permission denied
> /init: 88: mknod: Permission denied
> /init: 88: mknod: Permission denied
Very similar to the errors I was seeing so I think the patch will fix
it.
Anton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-03 3:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-02 11:34 [PATCH] powerpc: Fix size of st_nlink on 64bit Anton Blanchard
2012-06-02 21:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-03 2:28 ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-06-03 3:48 ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
2012-06-03 5:30 ` Stephen Rothwell
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