Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030235AbWCWMAX (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 07:00:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030240AbWCWMAW (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 07:00:22 -0500 Received: from rune.pobox.com ([208.210.124.79]:38561 "EHLO rune.pobox.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030235AbWCWMAW (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 07:00:22 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:00:18 -0600 From: Rodney Gordon II To: Con Kolivas Cc: ck list , linux list Subject: Re: [ck] 2.6.16-ck1 Message-ID: <20060323120018.GA10050@spherenet.spherevision.org> Mail-Followup-To: Con Kolivas , ck list , linux list References: <200603202145.31464.kernel@kolivas.org> <20060323113118.GA9329@spherenet.spherevision.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2582 Lines: 66 On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 10:40:17PM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > Rodney Gordon II writes: > > >Good job Con, on your patches.. As far as the kernel in general, I'd > >like to post some warnings: > > Thanks. > > >Adaptive readahead: I had probs with this before, and I still do.. On > >a desktop if you have odd problems (nothing responding for SECONDS, > >very slow disk I/O during heavy I/O, etc..) disable it. > > I was concerned about that myself which is why the only reason I included > it was because it came in a configurable form where you could choose to > enable it, and the default was off, and the config option even said > suitable to _servers_, not desktops. Yea, just thought I would try it again sighting the improvements in the ? docs in menuconfig, was just disappointed again. > >The new Yukon2 "sky2" driver: This one really pissed me off. It had me > >thinking apache2 AND my linksys router we're on the brink. For some > >unknown reason at least for me, in FF it would only half-load some > >pages, including ones on localhost AND my router (10.1.1.1) ... I > >dunno what the hell is up with this one. I have to stay with the > >syskonnect.com sk98lin patch, which.. doesn't work with 2.6.16 so I am > >back to 2.6.15 at the moment. > > > >nVidia drivers: Broken. I posted a ftbfs bug on the debian bts, here > >is a current patch that works against the current release: > >http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi/nvidia-kernel-source_1.0.8178-2.diff?bug=357992;msg=15;att=1 > > Luckily none of these are my fault. Yep, just warnings in general. > >All in all, my experience sucked for the first time on this kernel. > > /me does the "not my fault" look. LOL, I know, just warnings in general like I have said. > >Good luck with this new one.. > > Heh. No new one in the works just yet, but I'm actually not planning on > changing anything. Turn adaptive readahead off, and you're left with out of > kernel tree, or worse, binary driver problems. Turned it off, disk probs are gone. Meant to say "Good luck with this new mainline one.." Your patches are great.. Thus, why I started this post with "Good job Con, on your patches.." ;) -r -- Rodney "meff" Gordon II -*- meff@pobox.com Systems Administrator / Coder Geek -*- Open yourself to OpenSource - 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/