Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:14:10 +0200 | From | Roger Luethi <> | Subject | Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch |
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[ shorter CC: list, this is neither audio nor voluntary preempt related ]
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 00:03:48 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > (I modified the patch by hand to apply on this kernel, as > > 2.6.8-rc2 disables my network card). > > eh? That's a rather more serious problem. Does the via-rhine.c from > 2.6.8-rc1-mm1 work OK if you move it into 2.6.8-rc2?
As I mentioned previously on this list, I noticed the problem first when I moved to 2.6.7-bk20, but when I tried to investigate, it disappeared and never came back (thus, my summary is largely based on reports by others). I attributed it to some intermittent hardware problem until someone else reported it (see lkml thread: "via-rhine breaks with recent Linus kernels : probe of 0000:00:09.0").
The problem started in mainline between 2.6.7 and 2.6.7-bk20. It does not exist in the -mm series which contains a later version of via-rhine. IOW, updating mainline to the latest version of via-rhine would presumably fix the problem but it might introduce new problems and we'd never know what the bug was and if it was actually fixed or just masked.
I hate having via-rhine broken in mainline, but I'm busy with other stuff and I can't reproduce the problem anymore, so basically I am waiting to hear back from Jesper Juhl who volunteered to find the patch that makes the difference between mainline and -mm.
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