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Hi Max,
Massimo Cetra wrote:
> It didn't work the way it was described in that document. Probably
> because i'm on squeeze and test-patch throw some python exceptions
> that do not happen on wheezy.
>
> Instead:
> - i downloaded the debian sourrces with dget.
> - i applied the patch manually (it's very short) because the offsets
> were not the same
> - i re-generated the sources with dpkg-buildpackage -S
> - i boult the whole linux-$stuff with pbuilder.
Sounds painful. Here are instructions for testing against upstream
source, which might be easier.
0. prerequisites
apt-get install git build-essential
1. get the kernel history, if you don't already have it
git clone \
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
2. fetch point releases
cd linux
git remote add stable \
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git
git fetch stable
3. configure, build, test
git checkout stable/linux-3.2.y
cp /boot/config-$(uname -r) .config; # current configuration
scripts/config --disable DEBUG_INFO
make localmodconfig; # optional: minimize configuration
make deb-pkg; # optionally with -j<num> for parallel build
dpkg -i ../<name of package>
reboot
Hopefully it reproduces the bug. So:
4. try the patch
cd linux
git cherry-pick -x -s a881e963c7fe
make deb-pkg; # maybe with -j4
dpkg -i ../<name of package>
reboot
You wrote at [1] that this doesn't seem to have completely solved the
bridging-related panics. Am I correct in assuming the patch still
works as advertised, though? Are there other patches we should pick
up?
Hope that helps,
Jonathan
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1283112/focus=227842
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