Re: broken dpt_i2o in 2.6.23 (was: ext2 check page: bad entry in directory) (fwd)

Anders Henke
2007-12-12T14:17:47Z

Am 12.12.2007 schrieb Andrew Morton:
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:58:41 +0100 Anders Henke <anders.henke@1und1.de> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to let you now that my boxes are running a 32-bit kernel, so
> > the 64-bit-uncleanliness shouldn't apply to my boxes; however,
> >
> > http://www.miquels.cistron.nl/linux/dpt_i2o-64bit-2.6.23.patch
> >
> > fixed the issue on my testbox.
> >
> > I took a clean 2.6.23, applied patch, recompiled the kernel, reboot: works.
>
> What a huge patch :(
>
> We already reverted the offening patch so I assume that 2.6.24-rc5 is
> working for you?

Yes, the vanilla 2.6.24-rc5 works fine (at least it's booting :-).

Linux rdb140 2.6.24-rc5 #1 SMP Wed Dec 12 15:06:05 CET 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

> I guess we need to look at restoring "dpt_i2o: convert to SCSI hotplug
> model" and then absorbing what Miquel has done there.

I've tried 2.6.23 with

http://www.miquels.cistron.nl/linux/linux-2.6.23+24-dpt_i2o-dma64.patch

... and that's enough to make my boxes boot again.

Regards,

Anders
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