[BISECTED REGRESSION] b43legacy broken on G4 PowerBook

Larry Finger Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Sat Jun 8 04:50:42 AEST 2019


On 6/7/19 12:29 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I don't think we should work around this in the driver, we need to fix
> it in the core.  I'm curious why my previous patch didn't work.  Can
> you throw in a few printks what failed?  I.e. did dma_direct_supported
> return false?  Did the actual allocation fail?

I agree that that patch should not be sent upstream. I posted it only so that 
anyone running into the problem would have a work around.

I will try to see why your patch failed.

Larry



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