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

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Message-ID: <s5hodcl2x0o.wl%tiwai@suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:42:15 +0100
From:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:	perex@...ex.cz
Cc:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Roland Dreier <rolandd@...co.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

At Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:49:51 +0100,
I wrote:
> 
> [Sorry for the late response as I've been on vacation]
> 
> At Sat, 8 Dec 2007 21:15:44 -0500,
> Theodore Tso wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 11:30:53PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > On Saturday, 8 of December 2007, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > > > However, as far as I am concerned, Ingo's patch, first posted to LKML
> > > > here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/16/66 should be listed as fixing
> > > > the above regression.  Rafael, could you please make a note of this in
> > > > your regression list,
> > > 
> > > Done, thanks.
> > 
> > Great, thanks.  I should add that technically this wasn't a regression
> > since I had been seeing this since before 2.6.23.  Also, it isn't a
> > big deal, since aside from noise in the syslog, falling back to
> > polling more doesn't make any functional or user-visible difference
> > (although I guess it's less efficient).  
> > 
> > Regardless of whether it is a regression, it would be nice to get the
> > patch applied and and this issue fixed for 2.6.25!
> 
> You mean 2.6.24 ? ;-)
> 
> Yes, if it solves the problem, not only improves the latency, it's
> definitely nice to have now.  I was just too conservative to mark it
> for 2.6.24 merge although it looks safe.
> 
> Jaroslav, could you prepare this for the push?  It corresponds to
> alsa-kernel HG changeset 5557.

Jaroslav, what about this now?


Takashi
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