linux-kernel - Re: Regression for 3.0-rc1 - bisected to commit ea6949b66d084a197dd7f243b72e216a71d9f2ca

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Date:	Sat, 04 Jun 2011 08:32:42 -0500
From:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Amit Shah <amit.shah@...hat.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>
Subject: Re: Regression for 3.0-rc1 - bisected to commit ea6949b66d084a197dd7f243b72e216a71d9f2ca

On 06/04/2011 05:11 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@...inger.net>  wrote:
>> With kernel 3.0-rc1 and an openSUSE 11.4 distro, my HP dv2815nr notebook
>> fails to boot. Bisection leads to the following:
>>
>> finger@...rylap:~/linux-2.6>  git bisect bad
>> ea6949b66d084a197dd7f243b72e216a71d9f2ca is the first bad commit
>> commit ea6949b66d084a197dd7f243b72e216a71d9f2ca
>> Author: Tejun Heo<tj@...nel.org>
>> Date:   Thu Apr 21 20:54:44 2011 +0200
>>
>>     cdrom: always check_disk_change() on open
>
> This sounds like the infinite disk change bug that was mistakenly
> re-introduced in -rc1 by a bad merge.
>
> It should be fixed by commit 0f48f2600911 ("block: fix mismerge of the
> DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE removal"), so current -git should hopefully be
> good.
>
> Pls verify,

Linus,

Thanks for the quick reply. The current -git (v3.0-rc1-134-ga652b99) does indeed 
boot.

Larry
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