From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bjorn Helgaas Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 17:45:01 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch] 2.6.0-test9 pal/sal/salinfo/mca Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 03 December 2003 6:38 pm, Ben Woodard wrote: > We are currently basing our kernel off of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 > kernel and we discovered that the implementation of MCA included with it > does not work for us. The most obvious problem is that it never calls > ia64_sal_clear_state_info after fetching a SAL record. Thus the CPE > reasserts itself and the machine effectively locks up infinitely > printing out the same CPE to the console. I believe this is bug #104667 in the Red Hat bugzilla. The patch should be attached to the bug report. I can't get bugzilla to show me the report, so I don't know the current status. > So my question is: should we continue forward with our backport of the > 2.6 MCA code or is the 2.4 code actually functional enough to support > our needs and we are missing something in our quick inspection of the > code. As Keith mentioned, the current 2.4 and 2.6 MCA code should be essentially identical. Bjorn