From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756589AbYIOWCW (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:02:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754087AbYIOWCM (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:02:12 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:57084 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753982AbYIOWCM (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:02:12 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:01:30 -0400 From: Rik van Riel To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michael Chan Subject: Re: 2.6.27-rc5-mm1 Message-ID: <20080915180130.10995b90@cuia.bos.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20080904224004.d3dd3076.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20080904224004.d3dd3076.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Organization: Red Hat, Inc Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 22:40:04 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.27-rc5/2.6.27-rc5-mm1/ The bnx2 driver has stopped working on 2.6.27-rc5-mm1. Plain 2.6.27-rc5 works. Reversing the bnx2 changes in -mm1 does not fix the issue, so something less obvious is going on. # ifup eth0 Determining IP information for eth0...SIOCSIFFLAGS: Invalid argument SIOCSIFFLAGS: Invalid argument SIOCSIFFLAGS: Invalid argument # ifconfig eth0 up SIOCSIFFLAGS: Invalid argument Bringing up the interface fails with -EINVAL. Specifically, the SIOCSIFFLAGS ioctl is returning -EINVAL: ioctl(4, SIOCSIFFLAGS, 0x7fffc841cc40) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) I am running an x86-64 kernel on a Dell pe1950 with these network chips on the mainboard: 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12) 09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12) -- All Rights Reversed