Please pull powerpc.git 'merge' branch

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> 
> git pull \
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git merge

Hmm. I'm not at all sure this pull caused the problem, and it may have 
started long before, but right now I have problems printing on my G5 
machine. 

I'll get around to trying to bisect it at some point, but before I even 
start, I should probably check if anybody recognizes this immediately.

I blamed cupsd at first, because the problem ends up being that it just 
hangs in running state, and I just assumed it was broken user space as 
usual. But straceing the dang thing shows something strange, like this:

	...
	time(NULL)                              = 1024 <0.000009>
	select(1024, [7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14], [], NULL, {1, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) <0.000006>
	time(NULL)                              = 1024 <0.000006>
	select(1024, [7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14], [], NULL, {1, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) <0.000004>
	time(NULL)                              = 1024 <0.000007>
	select(1024, [7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14], [], NULL, {1, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) <0.000006>
	time(NULL)                              = 1024 <0.000007>
	select(1024, [7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14], [], NULL, {1, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) <0.000005>
	...

which actually looks like something is broken (it says timeout in 5 
microseconds, even though the timeout structure is shown as being one 
second).

Now, it's entirely possible that the _broken_ thing is actually strrace 
itself (that return value from "time()" looks a bit strange too), and that 
it's some tracing problem with rinning 32-bit programs on a 64-bit kernel.

But I thought I'd ask if somebody recognizes this before I start wasting 
any more time on it..

		Linus