Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: FDDI on Linux kernel 2.6 | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:02:00 +0100 |
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Ar Maw, 2006-10-24 am 13:19 +0200, ysgrifennodd Wouter de Waal: > We here at CCII Systems are probably the only company in the world still > actively involved with FDDI. The Linux Syskonnect FDDI driver needs a > patch. I have no idea who to speak to, but the g over at osdl said I > must ask here.
This is the right starting point. There is a network development list that might be better but I think essentially you might as well own the driver if nobody else is laying any claim to it any more.
> The second customer's problem could not be solved by the above. They > eventually found that kernel 2.6 (specifically, 2.6.8) uses memory > mapping, and that a check in the driver caused an exception because > of the length of the PCI region being 2048 and not 16384 (0x4000). > The customer reports that changing the compare to > > >if (len < 2048) { > > fixed the problem for them. > > Can this patch be applied to the kernel please?
I suspect the correct check is (len < FP_IO_LEN)
Either you or your customer can send patches versus a current kernel to update the driver.
Alan
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