Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932116AbWHNQGP (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Aug 2006 12:06:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751485AbWHNQGP (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Aug 2006 12:06:15 -0400 Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.153]:28105 "EHLO e35.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751333AbWHNQGN (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Aug 2006 12:06:13 -0400 Subject: Re: aic7xxx broken in 2.6.18-rc3-mm2 From: Dave Hansen To: Daniel Ritz Cc: Greg KH , Marcus Better , Andrew Morton , James Bottomley , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux scsi , ak@suse.de In-Reply-To: <200608130002.40223.daniel.ritz-ml@swissonline.ch> References: <1155334308.7574.50.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060812010317.GB25689@kroah.com> <200608122005.01929.daniel.ritz-ml@swissonline.ch> <200608130002.40223.daniel.ritz-ml@swissonline.ch> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:05:51 -0700 Message-Id: <1155571551.7574.143.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3217 Lines: 79 On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 00:02 +0200, Daniel Ritz wrote: > On Saturday 12 August 2006 20.05, Daniel Ritz wrote: > > On Saturday 12 August 2006 03.03, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 05:36:24PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 17:17:15 -0700 > > > > Dave Hansen wrote: > > > > > > > > > Well, I have a new culprit of the hour: > > > > > > > > > > gregkh-pci-pci-use-pci_bios-as-last-fallback > > > > > > > > Thanks, I'll drop it. > > > > > > > > > There was a previous patch that messed up a few of my machines and this > > > > > same driver a few months ago, which accounts for my sense of deja vu: > > > > > > > > > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc6/2.6.16-rc6-mm1/broken-out/gregkh-pci-pci-give-pci-config-access-initialization-a-defined-ordering.patch > > > > > > Ugh, this is a mess. Daniel, why does your machine need this patch, yet > > > as per Dave's comments, it's wrong? > > > > it's not my machines. they work fine :) but there where bug reports on linux-pcmcia > > for this problem...only shows up with kernel >= 2.6.17. see also bug 6801. > > > > 2.6.16 shows this: > > PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb9a0, last bus=0 > > PCI: Using configuration type 1 > > while 2.6.17+ shows only > > PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb9a0, last bus=0 > > > > so accessing the cardbus cards is not possible with PCI BIOS but works > > just fine with direct access... > > > > > > > > I think it might come down to the fact that the ordering before used to > > > not always happen in the same order (it depended on config options and > > > linker luck.) Now it's "fixed" to be the same way all the time. > > > Daniel, can't you solve this with the proper pci boot option? > > > > sure, but the point is: it used to work on those boxes, but broke with 2.6.17 > > > > ok, i had a look. the problem is not the patch itself. look at arch/i386/pci/legacy.c > > it's where those messages come from: > > PCI: Probing PCI hardware > > PCI: Discovered peer bus 02 > > PCI: Discovered peer bus 05 > > > > now if pcibios probing never runs pcibios_last_bus is -1 and pcibios_fixup_peer_bridges() > > exits immediatley, the other busses are never found...but why legacy probing anyway? > > > anyway, this alternative patch should help. it should be more like the <= 2.6.16 > behavior. > > [ CC'ing Marcus Better as the tester of the original patch. ] > > Marcus, could you test this patch instead of the original one and see how your > cardbus cards behave? > > Dave, your SCSI card should work with this as well :) Sorry, it has the same behavior as without the patch. If it matters, here is the relevant portion of my .config: CONFIG_PCI=y # CONFIG_PCI_GOBIOS is not set # CONFIG_PCI_GOMMCONFIG is not set # CONFIG_PCI_GODIRECT is not set CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y # CONFIG_PCIEPORTBUS is not set -- Dave - 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/