linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.20.7 locking up hard on boot

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Message-Id: <200704211444.03365.bzolnier@gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:44:03 +0200
From:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, Marcos Pinto <markybob@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>, linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Subject: Re: 2.6.20.7 locking up hard on boot


On Saturday 21 April 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:34:20PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 11:30:59PM -0500, Marcos Pinto wrote:
> > >  Yes, I just tried 2.6.20.3 with ACPI enabled and it booted perfectly.
> > >  I'm hoping this means you know what's wrong? :-)
> > 
> > Can you do a 'git bisect' on the versions between 2.6.20.3 and 2.6.20.7
> > to try to find the problem patch?
> 
> Considering where it failed and that 2.6.20.3 worked, I would be 
> extremely surprised if this wasn't one more report of 
> adjust-legacy-ide-resource-setting.patch breaking booting (and we 
> already have confirmed reports for this)...
> 
> But AFAIK we still don't understand how this patch managed to break 
> things.

Same here but 2.6.21 is near and we need to do something about this issue.

I'm thinking about reverting this patch for 2.6.21-final - having broken
X server is better than having broken and not booting kernel.

Jan, Alan?

Thanks,
Bart
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