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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, dancraig@internode.on.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test9-bk16 ALi M5229 kernel boot error
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 22:58:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031111225845.53d23a3a.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031112043133.GD24159@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 04:31:34 +0000
viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:04:17PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>  
> > Does this patch fix it?
> > -	if (north && north->vendor != PCI_VENDOR_ID_AL) {
> > +	if (!isa_dev) {
> 
> Wrong fix, AFAICS.  Original condition is bogus, no arguments here.
> However, the point is
> 	"tweak our southbridge only if northbridge is known to be OK with that"
> and not
> 	"tweak southbridge only if it's ours"
> 
> IOW, proper check is || of those two.

I agree with Al's analysis, and this is the kind of logic needed on
sparc64 boxes as well.

Indeed, blindly deref'ing 'isa_dev' here was pretty bogus :)

  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-12  6:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-12  2:46 2.6.0-test9-bk16 ALi M5229 kernel boot error Daniel Craig
2003-11-12  3:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-11-12  3:50   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-11-12  4:36     ` viro
2003-11-12  5:29     ` Linus Torvalds
2003-11-12  4:21   ` Daniel Craig
2003-11-12  4:31   ` viro
2003-11-12  6:58     ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-11-12 15:06       ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-11-12 15:52         ` Linus Torvalds
2003-11-12 16:39           ` Ivan Kokshaysky

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