Re: linux-next: Tree for September 3

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Sep 04 2008 - 13:46:38 EST


On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 02:07:05 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >
> > > commit 5f17cfce5776c566d64430f543a289e5cfa4538b
> > >
> > > PCI: fix pbus_size_mem() resource alignment for CardBus controllers
> >
> > Is this worth backporting into 2.6.26.x?
>
> It's certainly at least *potentially* -stable material, but because I
> suspect that the whole yenta_allocate_resources() -> pci_setup_cardbus()
> fallback code will end up resulting in a working setup, it may not be
> worth it. At least not until we've heard from more people..
>
> Can you check whether your vortex cardbus thing _works_ even without the
> fix?
>

Working on it, but got distracted by a /proc/net bug.



sony:/home/akpm> ifconfig -a
Warning: cannot open /proc/net/dev (Permission denied). Limited output.
Warning: cannot open /proc/net/dev (Permission denied). Limited output.
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:01:4A:9F:7C:79
inet addr:192.168.2.10 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

Warning: cannot open /proc/net/dev (Permission denied). Limited output.
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1

sony:/home/akpm> ls -l /proc/net/dev
ls: /proc/net/dev: Permission denied

sony:/home/akpm> ls -l /proc/net
ls: /proc/net: Permission denied

sony:/home/akpm> ls -ld /proc/net
ls: /proc/net: Permission denied

sony:/home/akpm> ls -l /proc | grep net
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? /proc/net


This is a pull of your tree from yesterday, ending at


commit fbb16e243887332dd5754e48ffe5b963378f3cd2
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Sep 3 00:54:47 2008 +0200

[x86] Fix TSC calibration issues

config: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-sony.txt
dmesg: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/dmesg-sony-without.txt
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