From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Al Viro Subject: Re: [bisected] Weird sysctl regression Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:49:36 +0100 Message-ID: <20080823084936.GK28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <87fxoyal9j.fsf@natisbad.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Miller To: Arnaud Ebalard Return-path: Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:47330 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750865AbYHWIti (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:49:38 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87fxoyal9j.fsf@natisbad.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 09:18:48AM +0200, Arnaud Ebalard wrote: > Hi, > > While updating some IPv6-related patches for net-2.6, I hit the > following issue on a test laptop (G4-based 12" powerbook). After > compiling current net-2.6 kernel on another ppc device (G4-based 15" > powerbook), I have the same issue. Note that: > > - it never shows up on any of the x86 devices I have. > - hardware of both ppc devices are similar (bcm4306, sungem, ...) > i.e. they do not only have endianness in common (and i had no sparc > device to test if it is an endianness issue or a coincidence) Endianness is very unlikely to be the cause of that. Order of initialization, OTOH... Can you reproduce it on mainline kernel or bisect between the mainline and net-2.6 if mainline is OK?