Re: broken dpt_i2o in 2.6.23 (was: ext2 check page: bad entry in directory) (fwd)

[Anders Henke <anders.henke@1und1.de>]

Am 12.12.2007 schrieb Miquel van Smoorenburg:
> On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 03:38 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:58:41 +0100 Anders Henke <anders.henke@1und1.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I'd like to let you now that my boxes are running a 32-bit kernel, so
> > > the 64-bit-uncleanliness shouldn't apply to my boxes; however,
> > > 
> > > http://www.miquels.cistron.nl/linux/dpt_i2o-64bit-2.6.23.patch
> > > 
> > > fixed the issue on my testbox.
> > > 
> > > I took a clean 2.6.23, applied patch, recompiled the kernel, reboot: works.
> > 
> > What a huge patch :(
> > 
> > We already reverted the offening patch so I assume that 2.6.24-rc5 is
> > working for you?
> > 
> > I guess we need to look at restoring "dpt_i2o: convert to SCSI hotplug
> > model" and then absorbing what Miquel has done there.
> 
> This was just a patch I had lying around, if it worked it would confirm
> my suspicion, which it has.
> 
> The minimal patch which is suitable for 2.6.23-stable and 2.6.24 would
> be the attached one-liner. The "dpt_i2o: convert to SCSI hotplug model"
> patch could be restored then.
> 
> (if the list eats the attachment, it's also available here:
> http://www.miquels.cistron.nl/linux/linux-2.6.23+24-dpt_i2o-dma64.patch 
> )
> 
> Anders, does this one-liner patch work for you ?

Got it - and it works!

I took a clean 2.6.23, applied the patch, recompiled the kernel and
rebooted my testbox: came up with the fresh-compiled kernel 
(verified by "uname -a").


Regards,

Anders
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