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Message-ID: <20070521182005.GA14390@oscar.prima.de>
Date:	Mon, 21 May 2007 20:20:05 +0200
From:	Patrick Mau <mau@...ar.ping.de>
To:	Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@...sics.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.21.1 on Fedora Core 6 breaks LVM/vgscan

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 04:02:46PM +0930, Jonathan Woithe wrote:
> On 21 May 2007 I wrote:
> 
> > Attempting to compile a 2.6.21.1 kernel for use on a Fedora Core 6 box
> > results in a panic at boot because the root filesystem can't be found.
> 
> I have just compiled 2.6.22-rc2 with the configuration file given in my
> previous post and the resulting kernel successfully boots on the machine
> concerned.  Whatever broke LVM for this machine in between 2.6.18 and
> 2.6.21.1 has now been fixed.

I recall that the device major number was moved to another place (253 ?)
Since this change caused many complaints, it was removed later on ...

> There is still a problem with the CDROM but I will follow up in another
> thread about that.

Did you mention ata_piix ?

With a recent git kernel, which I forgot, I was unable to read or eject
DVD's. (Un-encrypted, BTW).

Current git tree works fine again ...

Patrick

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