linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

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Message-ID: <475CF861.5080804@gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:27:13 +0900
From:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
>> Tejun already reported that this apparently gets fixed _properly_ with 
>> the more extensive cleanups and fixes that are pending for 2.6.25.
> 
> btw., how extensive are those cleanups and fixes in reality, is there a 
> rollup somewhere one could take a look at? Those fixes and cleanups were 
> deferred to v2.6.25 in the knowledge of having the current code included 
> in v2.6.24 - but now that the current approach seems to regress, maybe 
> those cleanups are still safe enough. (compared to an outright revert)

The following git tree contains patches pending review for 2.6.25.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tj/libata-dev.git;a=shortlog;h=improve-ATAPI-data-transfer-no-pio

And we're getting close to fixing the regression.  I don't think there's
too much worry about this one.  Just need a bit more time to test few
more things.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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