Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751304AbZDMUpB (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:45:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752192AbZDMUow (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:44:52 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:55965 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751817AbZDMUov (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:44:51 -0400 Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:44:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20090413.134442.199436809.davem@davemloft.net> To: mcarlson@broadcom.com Cc: holt@sgi.com, mchan@broadcom.com, benli@broadcom.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.30-rc1 tg3 endian issues with MAC addresses on BCM5701. Bisected. From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20090413175724.GA11076@xw6200.broadcom.net> References: <20090408062559.GF10768@sgi.com> <20090408071204.GG10768@sgi.com> <20090413175724.GA11076@xw6200.broadcom.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.2.51 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 837 Lines: 19 From: "Matt Carlson" Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:57:24 -0700 > Thank you for doing this bisection Robin. This, and the data you > provided in your previous email is really helpful. Unfortunately, they > raise more questions than answers. > > I reviewed this patch again, and it still looks correct to me. It > should be one big behavioral no-op. Obviously something is wrong, but > I'm not seeing the root cause at the moment. I need to think about this > some more. Matt, look at James Bottomly's patch posted earlier today, he describes the problem perfectly. -- 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/