Re: 2.3.43 failed

Paul Mackerras wrote:

I just updated linuxcare.com.au::linux-pmac-devel to 2.3.44 final.  I
fixed a couple of problems where it would hang during boot if you booted
from OF (or with quik or yaboot) and it couldn't find the screen.  Try it
now.  If it doesn't work, let me know (and tell me how you are booting it).

On my 6400, it compiles and boots OK, but there are some little itches:

- rsync complains about "send_files failed to open
Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: Permission denied"

- rsync copies a spurious file drivers/net/.#ppp_generic.c which is a
dead symlink

- during booting, there is a message
"/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_always_defrag is missing - Cannot control IP
fragmentation"

- while using my ethernet card with the de4x5 driver, I get hundreds of
"kernel: Warning: kfree_skb on hard IRQ c010ded8". Seeing that this
address is inside the de4x5 driver, I tried to compile it as a module,
so that I could also compare it to the tulip driver. Didn't work at
first:

- the tulip module loads without problem, but doesn't seem to like my
ethernet card (DEC 21041 chip). It gives me hundreds of "kernel: eth0:
21041 transmit timed out, status fc6800". With 2.2.14 kernels, the tulip
module works OK.

- the de4x5 module complains about missing symbols; and this is in fact
a bug I had mentioned already some days ago. I repeat the patch below.
It seems to be necessary, and it cures the problem. I am now on the net
with de4x5 as a module, but I still get the warnings, now with an
address in the module:
Feb 13 15:06:14 rennes-231 kernel: Warning: kfree_skb on hard IRQ
c7159770
Feb 13 15:07:24 rennes-231 last message repeated 421 times
Feb 13 15:12:01 rennes-231 last message repeated 97 times
and so on.

How can I get rid of the warnings (short of disabling the line that
produces it in net/core/skbuff.c)?

Here is the patch needed by pci driver modules:

--- arch/ppc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c.ori     Fri Feb  4 10:18:20 2000
+++ arch/ppc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c Fri Feb  4 10:28:10 2000

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
 #include <linux/console.h>
 #include <linux/irq.h>
+#include <linux/pci.h>

 #include <asm/page.h>
 #include <asm/semaphore.h>

@@ -137,6 +138,9 @@
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__clear_user);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__strncpy_from_user);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__strnlen_user);
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(pci_alloc_consistent);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(pci_free_consistent);

 /*
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(inb);

--

Martin

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