From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [SPARC64] INO problem Re: [Bug 10273] New: Sun GEM (PCI) - network device doesn't work Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:35:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20080425.133558.15713665.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20080402182655.GA2739@ami.dom.local> <20080425.002636.250010462.davem@davemloft.net> <20080425215905.0d21f5ca.seraph@xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jarkao2@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: seraph@xs4all.nl Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:38590 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755751AbYDYUf6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:35:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080425215905.0d21f5ca.seraph@xs4all.nl> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jos van der Ende Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:59:05 +0200 > > Please give this patch a try (this is against 2.6.23, which is the > > version you reported the bug against, let me know if another version > > is more convenient). > > I applied the patch against 2.6.24-gentoo-r4, the current kernel on this machine. It worked fine, with only an offset of 12 lines. Nothing unusual during compile either. > > The first results are hopeful: I am no longer able to trigger this bug by loading sym53c8xx before sungem, nor by having them both loaded by udev. Nothing odd in dmesg and the machine is completely functional. > > > I don't have much time for testing today, but if desired I will gladly do some more testing tomorrow or Sunday. Thanks for testing the change, I'll do some of my own testing and push the bug fix upstream. Thanks again!