Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 May 2006 21:33:28 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.17-rc5-mm1-lockdep: a rather strange oops |
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On Wed, 31 May 2006 19:47:10 -0700 "Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@pobox.com> wrote:
> On 5/31/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > > The original oops was a jump-to-null. I had a few of those when getting > > the latest git-libata-all tree working, due to missing > > ata_port_operations.data_xfer vectors. But it appears that both sata_sil.c > > and sata_promise.c do have those filled in. > > Ah, but pata_pdc2027x.c doesn't. (Oh, by the way, neither does sata_sil24.c.) > > I tried filling it in, with the following patch, but booting that gave > me lots of weird output before the kernel finally failed to boot from > the root device. "Lots" meaning, enough that I think I'll need a > serial console to get anything meaningful. I didn't see any oopses; > rather, it seemed like the driver was misbehaving. I don't know > whether the fault is in my patch, or elsewhere in the pdc2027x driver. > I don't have time tonight (or probably this week, for that matter) to > look into this further. > > As a reminder (in case anyone else jumps into this thread in the > future), 2.6.17-rc4-mm3 works perfectly...
Right, thanks. I'll drop the ata tree. I have no idea what they were thinking of, checking in that stuff. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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