From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
Cc: davej@suse.de, madkiss@madkiss.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Trivial bugfix in 3c509.c
Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 11:25:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CDE894D.6020002@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200205120116.DAA26360@harpo.it.uu.se>
Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>Dave & Martin,
>
>I noticed you guys included Kasper Dupont's patch in your
>2.5.15 patch kits:
>
>>With 3c509 compiled in kernel calling ifup after lots of
>>diskaccess causes an Oops.
>>
>>read_eeprom was incorrectly marked as __init. This patch
>>applies against 2.4.19-pre8-ac1 and maybee also 2.4.19-pre8:
>>
>
>Note that 2.4.19-pre8-ac1 has a newer version of 3c509.c than
>either 2.4.19-pre8 vanilla or 2.5.15, and it's only the newer
>version that calls read_eeprom() from non-__init code.
>This patch is not needed for 2.5.15.
>
>(The only calls to read_eeprom() in 2.5.15 are from el3_probe(),
>which is __init.)
>
Nevertheless, I applied it to both, because I want to sync up both
copies as much as possible.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-12 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-12 1:16 [PATCH] Trivial bugfix in 3c509.c Mikael Pettersson
2002-05-12 15:25 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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2002-05-11 12:24 Kasper Dupont
2002-05-11 15:49 ` Jeff Garzik
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