Re: [BUG] 2.6.11- sym53c8xx Broken on pp64

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 19:51 -0600, Omkhar Arasaratnam wrote:
> Seems with 2.6.11 the sym53c8xx kernel module incorrectly identifies the
> cache being misconfigured on a p630 (ppc64, POWER4+). 2.6.9 correctly
> brings up this adaptor as does AIX with absolutely no indication of a
> misconfigured cache.
> 
> Doing a simple diff I see ALOT of changes between 2.6.9 and 2.6.11
> pertaining to this module. Any ideas?

Are you sure it's plain 2.6.11 and not some bk clone of after 2.6.11 was
released ?

I just found a bug in the ppc64 ioremap code that got triggered by
the set_pte_at() patch that went into bk after 2.6.11 and that triggers
exactly that error, but I couldn't see anything wrong in 2.6.11 proper.

BTW, Linus: Any chance you ever change something to version or
extraversion in bk just after a release ? I know I already ask and it
degenerated into a flamefest, and I don't know if that is specifically
the case now, but I keep getting report of people saying "I have a bug
in 2.6.xx" while in fact, they have some kind of bk clone of sometime
after 2.6.xx...

Ben.


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