Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

[Rolf Eike Beer]

Am Dienstag, 30. August 2005 10:07 schrieb Rolf Eike Beer:
>Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
>>> >It's a PII-350 with more or less SuSE 9.3. The machine has no net
>>> > access, so I can only try to narrow it down to one rc at the weekend.
>>>
>>> 2.6.12 works fine, everything since 2.6.13-rc1 breaks it.
>>
>>Gaah. I don't see anything really obvious in that range. However, I notice
>>that pci_mmap_resource() (in drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c) now has
>>
>>+       if (i >= PCI_ROM_RESOURCE)
>>+               return -ENODEV;
>>
>>which seems a big bogus. Why wouldn't we allow the ROM resource to be
>>mapped? I could imagine that the X server would very much like to mmap it,
>>although I don't know if modern X actually does that. The fact that it
>>works when root runs the X server and causes problems for normal users
>>does seem like there's something that root can do that users can't do, and
>>doing a mmap() on /dev/mem might be just that.
>>
>>Eike, maybe you could change the ">=" to just ">" instead?
>>
>>PS. The patch that introduced this was billed as "no change for anything
>>but ppc". Tssk.
>
>This does not fix the problem. I'll narrow it down to one git snapshot next
>weekend (forgot the tarball on friday).

The problem appeared between 2.6.12-git3 and 2.6.12-git4.

Eike

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