Il giorno mar, 22/05/2007 alle 13.41 +0200, Giuseppe Sacco ha scritto: > Il giorno mar, 22/05/2007 alle 12.09 +0100, Ralf Baechle ha scritto: > > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 04:47:26PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > > > Below patch is meant to cure the problem. It's against HEAD but should > > apply to somewhat older problems as well. > > > > I appreciate testing asap so I can try to still push this upstream > > for 2.6.22. > [...] > > I may test it against 2.6.18, the standard debian kernel for stable; but > I will be on the console only in two days :-( It seems the patch doesn't apply on 2.6.18, so I will recompile 2.6.22-rc2, but I do not know if it works on my SGI. I never tried it. The error is: giuseppe@sgi:/usr/local/src/linux-source-2.6.18$ patch -p1 --dry-run </tmp/sgi.patch patching file arch/mips/sgi-ip32/Makefile Hunk #1 succeeded at 3 with fuzz 2. patching file arch/mips/sgi-ip32/ip32-platform.c patching file drivers/net/meth.c Hunk #1 FAILED at 8. Hunk #2 succeeded at 36 with fuzz 2 (offset 2 lines). Hunk #3 succeeded at 53 (offset 2 lines). Hunk #4 succeeded at 785 (offset 3 lines). Hunk #5 succeeded at 809 with fuzz 2 (offset 3 lines). Hunk #6 succeeded at 822 (offset 3 lines). 1 out of 6 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file drivers/net/meth.c.rej