From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2: uli526x only works after reload
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:31:52 +0100
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On Wednesday, 29 November 2006 22:30, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:08:00 +0100
> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:54, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, 28 November 2006 11:02, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Temporarily at
> > > > 
> > > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.19-rc6-mm2/
> > > > 
> > > > Will appear eventually at
> > > > 
> > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc6/2.6.19-rc6-mm2/
> > > 
> > > A minor issue: on one of my (x86-64) test boxes the uli526x driver doesn't
> > > work when it's first loaded.  I have to rmmod and modprobe it to make it work.
> 
> That isn't a minor issue.
> 
> > > It worked just fine on -mm1, so something must have happened to it recently.
> > 
> > Sorry, I was wrong.  The driver doesn't work at all, even after reload.
> > 
> 
> tulip-dmfe-carrier-detection-fix.patch was added in rc6-mm2.  But you're
> not using that (corrent?)
> 
> git-netdev-all changes drivers/net/tulip/de2104x.c, but you're not using
> that either.
> 
> git-powerpc(!) alters drivers/net/tulip/de4x5.c, but you're not using that.
> 
> Beats me, sorry.  Perhaps it's due to changes in networking core.  It's
> presumably a showstopper for statically-linked-uli526x users.  If you could
> bisect it, please?  I'd start with git-netdev-all, then tulip-*.

OK, but it'll take some time.
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