linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

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Message-Id: <200612162300.17151.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
Date:	Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:00:17 +0000
From:	Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@....ed.ac.uk>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Cc:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

On Saturday 16 December 2006 21:36, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> > In total isolation, v2.6.19..0e75f9063f5c55fb0b0b546a7c356f8ec186825e it
> > breaks. Reverting just 0e75f9063f5c55fb0b0b546a7c356f8ec186825e, it works
> > again.
> >
> > So I think this is the source, but I can't explain why it "goes away"
> > before git1 and "comes back" before 2.6.20-rc1.
>
> Can you see if the kernel state at commit 77d172ce ("[PATCH] fix SG_IO bio
> leak") is good? Ie just do something like
>
> 	git checkout -b test-branch 77d172ce
>
> and compile and test that?

As predicted, it still doesn't work.

[alistair] 22:59 [~/linux-git] git-status
# On branch refs/heads/test-branch
nothing to commit

[root] 22:59 [~] hddtemp /dev/sda
/dev/sda: ATA WDC WD2500KS-00M: S.M.A.R.T. not available

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

Final year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
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