linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc4: BAD regression

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Date:	Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:07:55 +0200
From:	Daniel Ritz <daniel.ritz-ml@...ssonline.ch>
To:	Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@...il.com>
Cc:	Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc4: BAD regression

On Thursday 30 August 2007 01:21:50 Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> Il Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 01:29:56AM +0200, Daniel Ritz ha scritto: 
> > tried that one on my old toshiba tecra 8000 laptop, almost killing it.
> > the fan doesn't work any more...type 'make' and see the box dying.
> > luckily my CPU doesn't commit suicide...bisected it to that one:
> > 
> > cd8c93a4e04dce8f00d1ef3a476aac8bd65ae40b is first bad commit
> 
> I've just bisected down to the same commit. In my case the fan is locked
> at maximum speed and the system is *extremly* slow (some kind of
> throttling?).
> 
> Alexey, I've seen the patch, I'll test it tomorrow and report back.
> 

i've just tested the minimal fix here:
	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8958#c7
works good so far. fan starts and system is responsive.

> Luca

rgds
-daniel


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