From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755974AbXLGPGd (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 10:06:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751293AbXLGPGY (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 10:06:24 -0500 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:34493 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751219AbXLGPGW (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 10:06:22 -0500 Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 16:05:49 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Bob Tracy Cc: Andrew Morton , 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 Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha Message-ID: <20071207150549.GA24254@elte.hu> References: <20071207022646.373c92f5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071207145526.B561CDBA2@gherkin.frus.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071207145526.B561CDBA2@gherkin.frus.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.3 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.3 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00,SUBJECT_FUZZY_TION autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 0.2 SUBJECT_FUZZY_TION Attempt to obfuscate words in Subject: -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Bob Tracy wrote: > > 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 }, reverting this makes the kernel image shorter by 8 bytes - so perhaps some alignment issue somewhere? Or something gets overflown? Does any of this get actually used by your bootup? Ingo