linux-kernel - Re: [4/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

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Date:	Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:43:58 -0700
From:	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Bob Tracy <rct@...rkin.frus.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [4/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 19:50 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This email lists some known regressions in Linus' tree compared to 2.6.20.
> 
> If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one
> of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch
> of you caused a breakage or I'm considering you in any other way
> possibly involved with one or more of these issues.
> 
> Due to the huge amount of recipients, please trim the Cc when answering.

> Subject    : boot hangs during IDE detection  (clocksource)
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/19/465
> Submitter  : Bob Tracy <rct@...rkin.frus.com>
> Caused-By  : John Stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
>              commit 6bb74df481223731af6c7e0ff3adb31f6442cfcd
> Handled-By : John Stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
> Status     : problem is being debugged


The incorrect clocksource selection is resolved w/ this patch:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/22/287

There is still an issue of why the PIT clocksource hangs, but for the
moment the issue its worked-around.

thanks
-john

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