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Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:32:56 -0700
From: Mickey Stein <yekkim@pacbell.net>
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To: Cal Peake <cp@absolutedigital.net>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.13-rc4
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Cal Peake wrote:

>On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Mickey Stein wrote:
>
>  
>
>>This is regarding *-rc4 and *-rc4-git1:  I slapped together my favorite config
>>and gave it a test run. It had a bit of a problem and ground to a halt after
>>spewing these into the log.
>>
>>If I can find the time tomorrow morning, I'll leave parport_pc commented out
>>of modprobe.conf and see if something else pops loose. I don't use the
>>parallel port, but I try to keep a fairly robust config for noticing bugs.
>>    
>>
>
>Hi Mick,
>
>Can you please try the patch below from Linus (or -git2 tomorrow) and 
>confirm that it fixes it for you?
>
>thx,
>-cp
>
>--- a/include/asm-i386/bitops.h
>+++ b/include/asm-i386/bitops.h
>@@ -335,14 +335,13 @@ static inline unsigned long __ffs(unsign
> static inline int find_first_bit(const unsigned long *addr, unsigned size)
> {
> 	int x = 0;
>-	do {
>-		if (*addr)
>-			return __ffs(*addr) + x;
>-		addr++;
>-		if (x >= size)
>-			break;
>+
>+	while (x < size) {
>+		unsigned long val = *addr++;
>+		if (val)
>+			return __ffs(val) + x;
> 		x += (sizeof(*addr)<<3);
>-	} while (1);
>+	}
> 	return x;
> }
> 
>  
>
Hi Cal,

I'll give that a go in about 30 minutes and report back, hopefully on 
*rc4-* ;) . I'm not sure I'll be around in the morning so will apply 
this to today's and see.

Thanks,

Mickey