Re: 2.4.20-pre2 NFS OOPS on sparc64

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 23:27, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Tuesday August 13, [e-mail] wrote:
> >    From: Meelis Roos <[e-mail]>
> >    Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 19:21:30 +0300 (EEST)
> > 
> >    2 oopses from stock 2.4.20-pre2 during NFS startup 9mountd etc killed as
> >    a result). Looks like a bad use of bitops inside sunrpc. egcs64 compiler
> >    from debian.
> >    
> > Neil, sk_flags in struct svc_sock may not be an int, bitops require
> > "long".
> 
> I knew that.... but obviously not at the right time.  Thanks.
> 
> Now if only Linus has told me (like you did) instead of just making
> the change himself in 2.5, I would have got it right in 2.4.

May be my fault. I fixed it in 2.2 the first time it cropped up and
apparently forgot to tell you so it propogated