From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262406AbUKKWsS (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:48:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262401AbUKKWrF (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:47:05 -0500 Received: from lists.us.dell.com ([143.166.224.162]:62119 "EHLO lists.us.dell.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262405AbUKKWnq (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:43:46 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:43:31 -0600 From: Matt Domsch To: Christian Kujau Cc: Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Pekka Enberg , Greg KH Subject: Re: Oops in 2.6.10-rc1 (almost solved) Message-ID: <20041111224331.GA31340@lists.us.dell.com> References: <418FDE1F.7060804@g-house.de> <419005F2.8080800@g-house.de> <41901DF0.8040302@g-house.de> <84144f02041108234050d0f56d@mail.gmail.com> <4190B910.7000407@g-house.de> <20041109164238.M12639@g-house.de> <4191530D.8020406@g-house.de> <20041109234053.GA4546@lists.us.dell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041109234053.GA4546@lists.us.dell.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 05:40:54PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > OK, thanks, that helps. From the diff of those dmesg: > > -BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 16 devices found > +BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 6 devices found As Linus points out, those are the magic numbers in EDD for number of device entries stored. Your BIOS seems to be reporting that is has more devices than it does, or the EDD assembly is horked in a way I have not yet deciphered. > I'll review the assembly again to see where I could have miscounted, > and see how that may affect the EDD sysfs exports. Likely no answer > from me before tomorrow though. I haven't been able to find a solution to your problem yet, and given some external time constraints I've got, won't be able to look into this again for another week or more. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com