From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266487AbUGUKOh (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jul 2004 06:14:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266491AbUGUKOh (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jul 2004 06:14:37 -0400 Received: from mail3.bluewin.ch ([195.186.1.75]:17560 "EHLO mail3.bluewin.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266487AbUGUKOd (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jul 2004 06:14:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:14:10 +0200 From: Roger Luethi To: Andrew Morton Cc: Lee Revell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch Message-ID: <20040721101410.GA26447@k3.hellgate.ch> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Morton , Lee Revell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040709182638.GA11310@elte.hu> <20040710222510.0593f4a4.akpm@osdl.org> <1089673014.10777.42.camel@mindpipe> <20040712163141.31ef1ad6.akpm@osdl.org> <1089677823.10777.64.camel@mindpipe> <20040712174639.38c7cf48.akpm@osdl.org> <20040719102954.GA5491@elte.hu> <1090380467.1212.3.camel@mindpipe> <20040721000348.39dd3716.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040721000348.39dd3716.akpm@osdl.org> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.7-bk20 on i686 X-GPG-Fingerprint: 92 F4 DC 20 57 46 7B 95 24 4E 9E E7 5A 54 DC 1B X-GPG: 1024/80E744BD wwwkeys.ch.pgp.net User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [ shorter CC: list, this is neither audio nor voluntary preempt related ] On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 00:03:48 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > (I modified the patch by hand to apply on this kernel, as > > 2.6.8-rc2 disables my network card). > > eh? That's a rather more serious problem. Does the via-rhine.c from > 2.6.8-rc1-mm1 work OK if you move it into 2.6.8-rc2? As I mentioned previously on this list, I noticed the problem first when I moved to 2.6.7-bk20, but when I tried to investigate, it disappeared and never came back (thus, my summary is largely based on reports by others). I attributed it to some intermittent hardware problem until someone else reported it (see lkml thread: "via-rhine breaks with recent Linus kernels : probe of 0000:00:09.0"). The problem started in mainline between 2.6.7 and 2.6.7-bk20. It does not exist in the -mm series which contains a later version of via-rhine. IOW, updating mainline to the latest version of via-rhine would presumably fix the problem but it might introduce new problems and we'd never know what the bug was and if it was actually fixed or just masked. I hate having via-rhine broken in mainline, but I'm busy with other stuff and I can't reproduce the problem anymore, so basically I am waiting to hear back from Jesper Juhl who volunteered to find the patch that makes the difference between mainline and -mm. Roger