Re: aic7xxx broken in 2.6.18-rc3-mm2

[Daniel Ritz <daniel.ritz-ml@swissonline.ch>]

On Monday 14 August 2006 18.05, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 00:02 +0200, Daniel Ritz wrote:
> > On Saturday 12 August 2006 20.05, Daniel Ritz wrote:
> > > On Saturday 12 August 2006 03.03, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 05:36:24PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 17:17:15 -0700
> > > > > Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > Well, I have a new culprit of the hour:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 	gregkh-pci-pci-use-pci_bios-as-last-fallback
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks, I'll drop it.
> > > > > 
> > > > > > There was a previous patch that messed up a few of my machines and this
> > > > > > same driver a few months ago, which accounts for my sense of deja vu:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc6/2.6.16-rc6-mm1/broken-out/gregkh-pci-pci-give-pci-config-access-initialization-a-defined-ordering.patch
> > > > 
> > > > Ugh, this is a mess.  Daniel, why does your machine need this patch, yet
> > > > as per Dave's comments, it's wrong?
> > > 
> > > it's not my machines. they work fine :) but there where bug reports on linux-pcmcia
> > > for this problem...only shows up with kernel >= 2.6.17. see also bug 6801.
> > > 
> > > 2.6.16 shows this:
> > > 	  PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb9a0, last bus=0
> > > 	  PCI: Using configuration type 1
> > > while 2.6.17+ shows only
> > > 	  PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb9a0, last bus=0
> > > 
> > > so accessing the cardbus cards is not possible with PCI BIOS but works
> > > just fine with direct access...
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I think it might come down to the fact that the ordering before used to
> > > > not always happen in the same order (it depended on config options and
> > > > linker luck.)  Now it's "fixed" to be the same way all the time.
> > > > Daniel, can't you solve this with the proper pci boot option?
> > > 
> > > sure, but the point is: it used to work on those boxes, but broke with 2.6.17
> > > 
> > > ok, i had a look. the problem is not the patch itself. look at arch/i386/pci/legacy.c
> > > it's where those messages come from:
> > > 	PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> > > 	PCI: Discovered peer bus 02
> > > 	PCI: Discovered peer bus 05
> > > 
> > > now if pcibios probing never runs pcibios_last_bus is -1 and pcibios_fixup_peer_bridges()
> > > exits immediatley, the other busses are never found...but why legacy probing anyway?
> > > 
> > anyway, this alternative patch should help. it should be more like the <= 2.6.16
> > behavior.
> > 
> > [ CC'ing Marcus Better as the tester of the original patch. ]
> > 
> > Marcus, could you test this patch instead of the original one and see how your
> > cardbus cards behave?
> > 
> > Dave, your SCSI card should work with this as well :)
> 
> Sorry, it has the same behavior as without the patch.  If it matters,
> here is the relevant portion of my .config:

hmm..should be 2.6.16 behavior with this...
what kind of box is this? could you give me dmesg output of plain 2.6.18-rc4
and a 2.6.18-rc4 with the patch (not -mm if possible)?
oh...and a lspci -vvv please

> CONFIG_PCI=y
> # CONFIG_PCI_GOBIOS is not set
> # CONFIG_PCI_GOMMCONFIG is not set
> # CONFIG_PCI_GODIRECT is not set
> CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y
> CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
> CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
> # CONFIG_PCIEPORTBUS is not set
>

thanks,
-daniel