From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932337AbWFMVnR (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:43:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932339AbWFMVnR (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:43:17 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:44428 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932337AbWFMVnQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:43:16 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:43:04 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Sergei Shtylyov Cc: drfickle@us.ibm.com, pbadari@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Message-Id: <20060613144304.2e846fb1.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <448EC74F.30104@ru.mvista.com> References: <20060609214024.2f7dd72c.akpm@osdl.org> <20060613065443.7f302319.akpm@osdl.org> <448EC74F.30104@ru.mvista.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:10:23 +0400 Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > > > Thanks. Reverting the below might fix it. > > Frankly speaking, I don't see how that can be possible. I haven't touched > any *real* checks in ide_allocate_dma_engine(), so it should fail regardless > of my patch. I'd rather supposed that pci_alloc_consistent() had failed... > Oh, OK, yes, sorry, you're right, I forgot. pci_alloc_consistent() is broken on powerpc in that kernel.