linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.21-rc5 from fc7-rc2 problems

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Message-ID: <460EFC76.4060808@seclark.us>
Date:	Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:27:34 -0400
From:	Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@...lark.us>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc5 from fc7-rc2 problems

Andrew Morton wrote:

>On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:14:01 -0400 Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@...lark.us> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I have just tried booting the fc7-rc2 live cd on 2 of my laptops and it 
>>failed on both.
>>
>>Laptop 1 is an asus vbi s96f that get a panic that says exception in 
>>interrupt routine
>>for my rtl8139.
>>
>>This device works fine in 2.6.20.2
>>    
>>
>
>That's regression #1.  Are you able to take a photograph of the screen
>when it has crashed?  Setting the display to 50 rows would make that more
>useful.  (serial console would be better, but I assume that thing has
>no serial port).
>
>  
>
>>The other laptop is a hp n5430 it fail in the ali-pata driver not being 
>>able to read the cdrom, timeing out
>>and dropping into a bash shell telling me to tell it where the root 
>>filesystem is.
>>    
>>
>
>That's #2, I guess.
>
>  
>
>>Also it sets my hard
>>drive to udma/33 when it run find at udma/66 under 2.6.20.1.
>>    
>>
>
>#3.  Hopefully it's related to #2.
>
>Please send the full dmesg output for 2.6.20.1 on the n5430.
>
>  
>
>>It would 
>>really be nice if the people makeing
>>all these changes would at least keep things compatible with what they 
>>were before. These are regressions
>>guys!
>>    
>>
>
>We try ;)
>
>  
>
>>This hp n5430 system works fine with 2.6.20.1.
>>    
>>
>
>Thanks, it helps.
>
>
>  
>
I'll see if I can get a serial port console setup on each laptop, 
failing that I'll take a
photo.

Thanks,
Steve

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