From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: , "Joseph P. Garcia" Subject: Re: mediabay hotswap, tun naming patches (2.4) Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 21:13:30 +0100 Message-Id: <20020120201330.2268@smtp.wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <20020120134827.15bedeb6.jpgarcia@execpc.com> References: <20020120134827.15bedeb6.jpgarcia@execpc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: >It's been a while. Got a few patches that have been languishing in my >system for too long. > >One changes the mediabay ide_register call to an explicit call to the >pmac_ide call that it needs, at least on a wallstreet. Without this, an >ide mediabay cannot be inserted post-boot. Thanks. >The second patch changes the behavior of the tun device so that devices >are not required to have a numerical value after their name. I have yet >to figure out how to tell MOL to assign a numerical value and pass tun a >% like the kernel wants. Just made it so that if there is no numerical >value, then that tun device is the only one of its kind. ( "mol" = one >iface, while mol% = many ifaces, (or maybe "mol0" and "mol1" are explicit >different ones, not same as "mol%" ifaces.)). I suppose would be >unnessesary/undesired when MOL gets updated to support ___% registration. >(or i figure out how to use it :) Could you send this to the tun driver maintainer ? >Thanks. > >PS, I still use my wallstreet, and haven't found out why adb crashes. >rtc and nvram also appear to break at that moment, but pmu (battery >support, etc) is fine. still not sure if its a pure software issue or if >hardware got confused. rtc and nvram are broken too ? that's weird. Can you try disabling the battery polling stuff in via-pmu.c to see if it's causing the problem ? (comment out the calls to query_battery_state()) Ben. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/