From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id fAOCsig05045 for linux-mips-outgoing; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 04:54:44 -0800 Received: from holomorphy (mail@holomorphy.com [216.36.33.161]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id fAOCsgo05036 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 04:54:42 -0800 Received: from wli by holomorphy with local (Exim 3.31 #1 (Debian)) id 167bO4-0004LE-00 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 03:54:24 -0800 Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 03:54:24 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: advice on dz.c Message-ID: <20011124035424.F1048@holomorphy.com> References: <20011123162710.D1048@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: brief message Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: ; from airlied@csn.ul.ie on Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 11:44:40AM +0000 Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 11:44:40AM +0000, Dave Airlie wrote: > This is unusual I've just taken a run down through a diff of 1.17 and 1.22 > from the MIPS CVS tree and I can't see anything that could cause breakage > that has been changed... I'd try commentined out the DZ_DEBUG stuff.. this > isn't meant to be called... unless someone wants to specifically debug > their dz.c on a decstation.... otherwise it should be switched off.. > > Granted to code doesn't look like it would compile with it off.. > > Dave. I took a day out to look at it, I can spend more time on debugging it, as hacking the kernel into shape on this box is somewhat of a hobby project for me. I think the one thing I didn't take a look at was the copy_to_user() changes, so it could be useful to explore that, and I've got a couple of other tricks up my sleeve. Cheers, Bill