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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>
To: Michael <michael@moffatt•org.nz>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla•kernel.org,
	bugme-daemon@bugzilla•kernel.org,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk•ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 15091] New: starfire causes kernel BUG when interface goes up
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:51:41 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100125175141.cf53de2b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B5E48FF.2050406@moffatt.org.nz>

On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:44:31 +1300 Michael <michael@moffatt•org.nz> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
> 
> I believe that this is a regression, yes.
> 
> I will attempt to compile up some kernels this week and provide more 
> info. Should I start at 26 and go up or at 31 and go down?
> 
> I can't use anything lower than 26 according to udev. I was running 24 
> but compiled 32 when I upgraded udev.
> 

Thanks.

Starfire is a pretty rarely-used driver, I suspect.  Hopefully someone
who understands the NAPI stuff can look at the code and go "ah-hah",
and save you all that work.

But if that doesn't happen then yup, a bisection would be good, thanks.
 The best way to do it really is with git. 
http://landley.net/writing/git-quick.html has an explanation.




  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-26  1:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <bug-15091-10286@http.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
2010-01-26  1:08 ` [Bugme-new] [Bug 15091] New: starfire causes kernel BUG when interface goes up Andrew Morton
2010-01-26  1:44   ` Michael
2010-01-26  1:51     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-01-26  2:02   ` [PATCH] starfire: Clean up properly if firmware loading fails Ben Hutchings
2010-01-26  2:15     ` Andrew Morton
2010-01-26  2:32       ` Ben Hutchings
2010-01-26  2:58         ` Michael
2010-01-26  3:28           ` Andrew Morton
2010-01-26  5:51             ` Michael
2010-01-26  5:57               ` Andrew Morton
2010-01-26 14:40               ` Ben Hutchings

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