Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sat, 17 Nov 2007 15:52:59 -0800 | From | Andrew Morgan <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.24-rc2-mm1 -- strange apparent network failures |
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Kevin,
Can you try this quick hack?
diff --git a/kernel/capability.c b/kernel/capability.c index e57d1aa..4088610 100644 - --- a/kernel/capability.c +++ b/kernel/capability.c @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ out: kdata[i].permitted = pP.cap[i]; kdata[i].inheritable = pI.cap[i]; } - - while (i < _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S) { + while (0 && (i < _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S)) { if (pE.cap[i] || pP.cap[i] || pP.cap[i]) { /* Cannot represent w/ legacy structure */ return -ERANGE; Thanks
Andrew
Kevin Winchester wrote: > On November 17, 2007 01:16:58 am Andrew Morgan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This warning is just saying that you might want to reconsider >> recompiling your dhclient with a newer libcap - which has native support >> for 64-bit capabilities. This is supposed to be informative, and not be >> associated with any particular error. >> >> From your comments, you believe that this patch causes something in your >> boot process to fail. Can you supply some detail about the version of >> dhclient you are using? I'd like to understand exactly what it is doing >> (via libcap). >> >> Thanks >> > > The boot succeeds (and appears to bring initialize the network adapter > properly - it autonegotiates a 100Mbps link speed), but the dhcp client is > never able to get an address. However, applying the rc2-mm1 patch series up > to just before: > > add-64-bit-capability-support-to-the-kernel.patch > > results in a working kernel. Applying just this patch causes the failure. To > be sure, I also tried applying the above patch plus the following ones: > > add-64-bit-capability-support-to-the-kernel-checkpatch-fixes.patch > add-64-bit-capability-support-to-the-kernel-fix.patch > add-64-bit-capability-support-to-the-kernel-fix-fix.patch > remove-unnecessary-include-from-include-linux-capabilityh.patch > > but the problem still occurs even with all of these. > > As to versions, I'm running Kubuntu gutsy, so I have the default: > > dhcp3-client 3.0.5-3ubuntu4 > libcap1 1:1.10-14build1 > > packages installed. > > Let me know if you need any other information, or if you have a patch you > would like tested. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux)
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