Re: [GIT PATCH] PCI patches for 2.6.15 - retry

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> > Here are some PCI patches against your latest git tree.  They have all
> > been in the -mm tree for a while with no problems.  I've pulled out all
> > of the offending patches that people objected to, or ones that crashed
> > older machines from the last series I sent you.
> 
> Before I pull this, I'd like to get some confirmation that some of the 
> other problems that seem to be PCI-related in the -mm tree are also 
> understood, or at least known to be part of the stuff that you're _not_ 
> sending me..

It's really hard to keep track of all this, so it's likely that some things
will still sneak through.

- Reuben Farrelly's oops in make_class_name().  Could be libata, or scsi
  or driver core.

- A few problems with ehci.  For example Grant Coady went oops loading
  the module.  Probably USB, maybe solved now, but there are
  interactions...

- gregkh-pci-x86-pci-domain-support-the-meat.patch is a problem, but
  wasn't in this tree.

> [ There's at least a pci_call_probe() NULL ptr dereference report by 
>   Martin Bligh, I think Andrew has a few others he's tracked.. ]

Yes, Martin is reporting failures on a few machines.  Hopefully he's
working out whether gregkh-pci-x86-pci-domain-support-the-meat.patch was
the culprit here.  If so, I'd say we're good to go.  If that's _not_ the
source then we just don't know where the failure is coming from.

All very vague, sorry.