Re: 2.6.16-rc6-mm2

Andrew Morton
2006-06-13T21:43:17Z

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:10:23 +0400
Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> wrote:

>
> > Thanks. Reverting the below might fix it.
>
> Frankly speaking, I don't see how that can be possible. I haven't touched
> any *real* checks in ide_allocate_dma_engine(), so it should fail regardless
> of my patch. I'd rather supposed that pci_alloc_consistent() had failed...
>

Oh, OK, yes, sorry, you're right, I forgot. pci_alloc_consistent() is
broken on powerpc in that kernel.