linux-kernel - Re: Bug in 2.6.29 ide-cd: Kernel freeze: bisected + unacceptable workaround

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Message-ID: <49D0B1F3.7020706@nessie.de>
Date:	Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:50:11 +0200
From:	Michael Roth <mroth@...sie.de>
To:	petkovbb@...il.com, Michael Roth <mroth@...sie.de>,
	bzolnier@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug in 2.6.29 ide-cd: Kernel freeze: bisected + unacceptable
 workaround

> b.) unpatched 2.6.29, boot without a medium in an drive
>     but _not_ starting /usr/sbin/hald result in _no_ freeze!
> 
> I can also mount DVDs and access them, with an unpatched kernel
> without started /usr/sbin/hald, without any problems, as far
> as I can see.

c.) I unmounted the DVD, started /usr/sbin/hald and it took
    about 40 seconds until the kernel freeze.

So far as I see, /usr/sbin/hald somehow triggers a bug. But the bug
isn't triggered, when the dma is started after the command is sent.


Michael Roth


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