Ralf Baechle wrote:
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.
Thanks,
Ralf
Didn't test on 2.6.22 (yet), but 2.6.21.1 works:
# ls -ld /sys/class/net/*{,/device}
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 May 22 18:19 /sys/class/net/eth0/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 May 22 18:19 /sys/class/net/eth0/device ->
../../../devices/platform/meth/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 May 22 18:19 /sys/class/net/lo/
Btw, If we wanted to protect meth from the speculative execution issues of the
R10000 processor, what's the right way for that? I believe IP28 used a special
type of buffer for protecting Seeq from the DMA wonkiness that occurs, but I got
the indication that Meth would need a different approach.
--Kumba
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