Re: 2.6.24-rc8-mm1

From: Balbir Singh
Date: Sun Jan 20 2008 - 11:35:24 EST


* Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> [2008-01-20 16:31:42]:

> On (17/01/08 02:35), Andrew Morton didst pronounce:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc8/2.6.24-rc8-mm1/
> >
>
> The e100 network driver is failing to load properly on an old laptop. The
> dmesg output is as follows
>
> [ 68.875508] e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.23-k4-NAPI
> [ 68.877091] e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation
> [ 68.881216] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
> [ 68.893113] modprobe:2736 conflicting cache attribute e8120000-e8121000 uncached<->default
> [ 68.897090] e100: 0000:00:03.0: e100_probe: Cannot map device registers, aborting.
> [ 68.901108] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:03.0 disabled
> [ 68.905106] e100: probe of 0000:00:03.0 failed with error -12
>
> The "conflicting cache attribute" message appears to be part of the PAT patches
> in the git-x86 tree (cc's added). It may be a co-incidence but reverting
> git-net related patches didn't fix it but reverting git-x86 and any
> depencies to make quilt work did.
>

Hi, Mel,

Found and fixed the problem. The patch is available at

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/17/534

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Warm Regards,
Balbir Singh
Linux Technology Center
IBM, ISTL
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