From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756143AbXLGOzm (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 09:55:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752061AbXLGOzb (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 09:55:31 -0500 Received: from gherkin.frus.com ([192.158.254.49]:60952 "EHLO gherkin.frus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752015AbXLGOza (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 09:55:30 -0500 Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha In-Reply-To: <20071207022646.373c92f5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> "from Andrew Morton at Dec 7, 2007 02:26:46 am" To: Andrew Morton Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 08:55:26 -0600 (CST) CC: Bob Tracy , mingo@elte.hu, mcree@orcon.net.nz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rjw@sisk.pl, rth@twiddle.net, ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, kay.sievers@vrfy.org, greg@kroah.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: <20071207145526.B561CDBA2@gherkin.frus.com> From: rct@frus.com (Bob Tracy) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I wrote: > "git diff 2f1f53bdc6531696934f6ee7bbdfa2ab4f4f62a3 6f37ac793d6ba7b35d338f791974166f67fdd9ba" > produced a relatively short patch (18,437 bytes). The list of involved > files: > > (omitted) > > Current state of the source tree is the 6f37ac... version, so I'll start > backing out the above diffs in related groups and continue until I've got > a working kernel. For lack of an obvious target, I'll start with the > seemingly innocuous change to sysctl_check.c. I'll report back when I've > got something. That was quick :-). Backing out the sysctl_check.c diff gives me a working kernel. Beats the #$%@! out of me how/why, though. Michael Cree: could you try backing out the diff below from your 2.6.24-rc3 tree and see if things are now working for you? Here's "uname -a", just to confirm (maybe) I'm running on what I say works: Linux smirkin 2.6.24-rc2-g6f37ac79-dirty #2 Fri Dec 7 08:03:12 CST 2007 alpha Here's the diff I backed out (patch -R). It's short... diff --git a/kernel/sysctl_check.c b/kernel/sysctl_check.c index 5a2f2b2..4abc6d2 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl_check.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl_check.c @@ -738,7 +738,7 @@ static struct trans_ctl_table trans_net_table[] = { { NET_ROSE, "rose", trans_net_rose_table }, { NET_IPV6, "ipv6", trans_net_ipv6_table }, { NET_X25, "x25", trans_net_x25_table }, - { NET_TR, "tr", trans_net_tr_table }, + { NET_TR, "token-ring", trans_net_tr_table }, { NET_DECNET, "decnet", trans_net_decnet_table }, /* NET_ECONET not used */ { NET_SCTP, "sctp", trans_net_sctp_table }, -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bob Tracy | "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist- " rct@frus.com | - Last words of Union General John Sedgwick, | Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, U.S. Civil War ------------------------------------------------------------------------