Re: 2.6.19-rc5-mm2

From: Mattia Dongili
Date: Fri Nov 17 2006 - 02:17:23 EST


On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:50:48PM +0100, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Mattia Dongili wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 07:29:35PM +0100, Stefan Richter wrote:
> >> Could you also test one or even better both of:
> >> - 2.6.19-rc5 plus
> >> http://me.in-berlin.de/~s5r6/linux1394/updates/2.6.19-rc5/2.6.19-rc5_ieee1394_v204_experimental.patch.bz2
> >> (these are the same FireWire drivers as in -rc5-mm2)
> >
> > the oops disappear
> >
> >> and/ or
> >> - 2.6.19-rc5-mm2 minus
> >> http://www.it.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc5/2.6.19-rc5-mm2/broken-out/git-ieee1394.patch
> >
> > the oops is there again.
> > I suppose git-ieee1394 is the one then...
>
> On the contrary, it's very likely _not_ git-ieee1394.

yup, sorry. That's exactly what I ordered my fingers to type... (damn
fingers).

> > dmesg:
> > http://oioio.altervista.org/linux/2.6.19-rc5-test1-ok
> > http://oioio.altervista.org/linux/2.6.19-rc5-mm2-1-ko
>
> I will look at it tomorrow.
>
> > next step (smells like bisection) if for tomorrow :)
>
> Unless you are eager to get results faster, let me think about where
> this superfluous node_entry could come from. Perhaps a run-time test of
> -mm by myself is in order; I am currently on 2.6.19-rc4 plus that patch
> at me.in-berlin.de. Could spare you a lot of time if I find out more. :-)

No problems, I can wait :) After all I don't have any ieee1394 device
(that's why I was rmmod-ing modules :))
If needed feel free to ask me for a bisection.

--
mattia
:wq!
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