Re: 53052feb6 (PNP: remove pnp_mem_flags() as an lvalue) breaks myALSA intel8x0 sound card regression

[Rene Herman]

On 01-06-08 16:42, Avuton Olrich wrote:

> My intel8x0 card stops working due to a regression; bisection and
> information below.
>
> May have relationship to this thread
> http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/d5857287a36e71af/d7ae0a1490b7d142?lnk=st
>
> http://avuton.googlepages.com/intel8x0-config.gz
> http://avuton.googlepages.com/intel8x0-cpuinfo
> http://avuton.googlepages.com/intel8x0-dmesg

This dmesg seems to be 6-byte file consisting of "dmesg\n" ...

> http://avuton.googlepages.com/intel8x0-ioports
> http://avuton.googlepages.com/intel8x0-lspci-vvv
> http://avuton.googlepages.com/intel8x0-modules
> http://avuton.googlepages.com/intel8x0-ver-linux
> http://avuton.googlepages.com/intel8x0-version
>
> commit 53052feb6ddd05cb2b5c6e89fb489bf83bbb6803
> Author: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx>
> Date:   Mon Apr 28 16:34:15 2008 -0600
>
>     PNP: remove pnp_mem_flags() as an lvalue
>
>     A future change will change pnp_mem_flags() from a "#define that
>     simplifies to an lvalue" to "an inline function that returns the
>     flags value."
>
>     Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx>
>     Acked-By: Rene Herman <rene.herman@xxxxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>

I'm probably just really blind but I don't see how that specific commit 
may have made any difference. It _is_ in the exact spot which would fix 
that overlap problem of yours but this should be an identity change as 
far as fuctionality goes. Are you _really_ sure it's this one?

(Is this racing with anything?)

Rene.
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