Re: ohci1394 regression in 2.6.19-rc1 (was Re: Merge window closed: v2.6.19-rc1)

Alistair John Strachan
2006-10-05T22:37:22Z

On Thursday 05 October 2006 23:16, Stefan Richter wrote:
[snip]
> It does indeed look like the nodemgr kicked in prematurely. After some
> other messages from lower levels and from different contexts, there is
> also a sign of nodemgr_check_irm_capability() failing (it can only fail
> this early):
>
> [ 40.298112] ieee1394: Current remote IRM is not 1394a-2000 compliant,
> resetting...
>
> OK. Enough with the boring details. Maybe the following patch doesn't
> work entirely as I intended:
> "ieee1394: nodemgr: switch to kthread api, replace reset semaphore"
> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=comm
>itdiff_plain;h=d2f119fe319528da8c76a1107459d6f478cbf28c
>
> I think if you revert the next patch first...
> "ieee1394: nodemgr: convert nodemgr_serialize semaphore to mutex"
> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=comm
>itdiff_plain;h=cab8d154e2ed43fe1495aa0e18103e747552891b
>
> ...you can then revert the 'switch to kthread' patch and see if the
> message "Running dma failed because Node ID is not valid" disappears.
> Would be nice if you could test that.

Of course. I tried reverting these two, and it has not helped.

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 562133 2006-10-05 23:29 kernel/drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394.ko

(KBUILD only regenerated this file, I hope that's correct.)

http://devzero.co.uk/~alistair/ieee1394/dmesg-2.6.19-rc1-reverts.gz

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Alistair.

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