Re: broken dpt_i2o in 2.6.23 (was: ext2 check page: bad entry indirectory) (fwd)

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Dec 12 2007 - 06:38:56 EST


On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:58:41 +0100 Anders Henke <anders.henke@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to let you now that my boxes are running a 32-bit kernel, so
> the 64-bit-uncleanliness shouldn't apply to my boxes; however,
>
> http://www.miquels.cistron.nl/linux/dpt_i2o-64bit-2.6.23.patch
>
> fixed the issue on my testbox.
>
> I took a clean 2.6.23, applied patch, recompiled the kernel, reboot: works.

What a huge patch :(

We already reverted the offening patch so I assume that 2.6.24-rc5 is
working for you?

I guess we need to look at restoring "dpt_i2o: convert to SCSI hotplug
model" and then absorbing what Miquel has done there.

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