Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946483AbWJTUvU (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:51:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946486AbWJTUvU (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:51:20 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:37536 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946483AbWJTUvT (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:51:19 -0400 Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.19-rc2 From: Alan Cox To: Kevin Radloff Cc: Linus Torvalds , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <3b0ffc1f0610201130i8f15e49oec2cdc68abb8dbd@mail.gmail.com> References: <3b0ffc1f0610201130i8f15e49oec2cdc68abb8dbd@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 21:53:06 +0100 Message-Id: <1161377586.26440.61.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 998 Lines: 22 Ar Gwe, 2006-10-20 am 14:30 -0400, ysgrifennodd Kevin Radloff: > On 10/13/06, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Ok, it's a week since -rc1, so -rc2 is out there. > > A bit behind, but booting still takes ages on my laptop as > libata/ata_piix tries to probe a device that isn't there (I reported > this previously against -rc1, but got no response): Probing is somewhat broken in 2.6.18 - something in the core code changed as its upset quite a few drivers at once. One case causes repeated errors and finally detection of an ATAPI device, the other causes repeated errors and then failure when no device is present but takes a few minutes and keeps IRQs locked off for long periods. Both appear to be fallouts from the new EH code. Alan - 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/