Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261864AbVCYWj4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:39:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261861AbVCYWiS (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:38:18 -0500 Received: from mailwasher.lanl.gov ([192.65.95.54]:599 "EHLO mailwasher-b.lanl.gov") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261867AbVCYWb5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:31:57 -0500 Message-ID: <42449155.4040700@mesatop.com> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:31:49 -0700 From: Steven Cole User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.0 (Multics) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm3 (cannot read cd-rom, 2.6.12-rc1 is OK) References: <20050325002154.335c6b0b.akpm@osdl.org> <42446B86.7080403@mesatop.com> <424471CB.3060006@mesatop.com> <20050325122433.12469909.akpm@osdl.org> <4244812C.3070402@mesatop.com> <20050325134903.6862718f.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050325134903.6862718f.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 4.7.0.111621 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1602 Lines: 47 Andrew Morton wrote: > Steven Cole wrote: > >>>>I found a few more minutes to test two more kernels. The problem >>>>first occured with 2.6.12-rc1-mm2: >>>> >>>>2.6.12-rc1 reads the cd-rom OK as reported earlier >>>>2.6.12-rc1-mm1 also reads the cd-rom OK >>>>2.6.12-rc1-mm2 broken same as -mm3 described as above >>>>2.6.12-rc1-mm3 broken as reported earlier >>> >>> >>>Are you really really sure about that? -mm3 included both the bk-ide-dev >>>tree and the isofs changes. 2.6.12-rc1-mm2 had neither. >>> >> >>Just to be really really sure, I repeated the tests. I even checked >>that the image/label combination in /etc/lilo.conf was what I intended, >>but the uname -r should show what's what. >> >>Same results, -mm2 broken, and -mm1 reads the disk. I even tried >>other CD's just to make sure I didn't have something weird. Same results. > > > OK, thanks. > > It would be interesting to copy a CD to hard disk (under -mm1) and see if > it works OK with the loopback driver. > > Also, boot into -mm2 and do a `cmp' of the cdrom with the image which is on > hard-disk. > > This should help us work out whether it's isofs, the driver, the VFS or > whatever. > - It seems that I've run out of time here today. If this is still an issue after the weekend, I'll do the above tests. Until then, Happy Easter. Steven - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/